Originally Posted by
Waitingformins
Why would you rather hang yourself than work for Eagle? I assumed Eagle had captains knocking out 6 figures. How is it easier to quit and change professions than to vote to raise this one? I know King Air and light jet captains making 30-40K, sure they don’t work as much, but it’s still a full time commitment and not easy to raise kids on. I feel like the reason the movement is slow is because once you make captain it is difficult to move vertically somewhere else. I don’t think 1500+- captains at Eagle are hanging around for the pension, it because it’s difficult to achieve their salary elsewhere. If you can make more than captain pay elsewhere than you should start today; just because your career expectations have been beaten down doesn’t mean you’re still not in the best position to be in. You will be a captain or at mainline in five years regardless of this vote. I feel like you want a change so bad in your career that, you may be duped into believing this will alter the course.
Lastly, your MEC voted no to last year’s deal. Those actions directly improved the deal you have now. They do have your interest, and think the next deal will be even better than this one or the one previous. How would you feel after knowing this deal, if they would have said well we did the math and it won’t hurt us, so will take your first offer of concessions after bk, while making money. Mind you it was much closer to the pinnacle vote and before the xjet vote, and they still had reason enough to know the next deal would be better. You would have never gotten what you claim to be happy with now.
You have valid points. My personal priorities have pay ranked very low, my wife works and combined we make about 60k a year which more than pays all of our bills and allows us to save for retirement. In my eyes the regionals are not a career option even if the pay was 200k a year. I want better qol and more time off and with the current type of flying most regionals do that is impossible.
Everyone's priorities are different and I respect that. I am at peace whichever way this thing plays out.
I agree the MEC made good decisions up to this point, I thought the company had more to offer after the last "no" vote. From my gambling perspective this offer is the last best one, I'm not worried eagle will shut down, it won't. However, it will shrink which will adversely affect my career. I've got 5 years left to make a major or bust, so this agreement works well enough for me.