Originally Posted by
CBreezy
I'm not at PSA so please enlighten us.
1) The quoted article says that PSA did not lower pay but simply cap it at 12/4 years respectively. If regional airlines are supposed to be a step in a career and not a career in itself (not reality in the last 8 years, I know but everyone's hopes) why is this bad?
2) What exactly are the reasons why people are so angry?
Ask a 4 year FO who is about to go to year 5 if this is a pay cut? Ask anyone who is now having to give up more of their pay check to health care if this is a pay cut. Then ask why us airways group, that made 409 million pretax profit in the 2nd quarter this year, needs pilots who already make nothing to give up more? Because of greed! Who wouldn't be upset. And the pilots at psa are either ignorant or ok with greedy management taking more from them. There are pages and pages of people making these exact points over and over again. There is the stop the whipsaw web page and Facebook page stating these same things and I'm blown away people still get on here and ask what the big deal is? Do just an hour of research and listen to the numbers of pilots being vocal about banding together to stop the whipsaw. It will make you more informed and hopefully convince you this is a fight worth fighting for. Regardless of what airline you work for, we can all agree to no more concessions so we can all start getting paid more...well except for that 61 percent at psa who don't want a pay raise. I feel the worst for the psa guys who tried and voted no. I hope to see them come over to Skywest to help us negotiate a raise.