Originally Posted by
Sniper
I'm not defending PSA's contract, nor Mesa's management, but, by convincing the PSA pilot's to vote that contract in and running Mesa through Ch. 11 to shed all the 50 seaters, both of these airlines' management have set up a situation that is likely going to include quick upgrades.
For most civilian trained pilots, every year you spend somewhere other than the last employer you work for is a year of lost seniority, lower QOL and lower career earnings.
Get your experience and connections, and get out - that is the formula that has worked for almost every mainline pilot hired in the last 25 years from the regionals.
How many times in the last ten years has the economics been setup for a quick upgrade and then the economics didn't pan out and the pyramid imploded? Then what's left is a bunch of people stuck on that trash fo pay they didn't think they'd be on long, and the rest of the industry pulled down to their level. Wash rinse repeat.
Mesa is a great example, plummeting to a ten year upgrade. Gojetz is slowly getting longer and longer. Psa has done this before to pdt and allegahny and look they ended up in the end with a seven year upgrade. No one had any idea three years ago tran states upgrade would plummet. I've also been hearing since 2010 compass is on the verge of having a one year upgrade, well I'd be an fo there too.