I signed up for the company that up until recently was hyping the following:
1. Annual pay based upon 90 hours a month every month.
2. Growth that would make reserve a brief inconvenience.
3. The most flexible schedules in the industry.
4. Scheduling practices that bring humanity back to air travel.
5. Stock options that would make us all wealthy.
6. Profit sharing that would make up for the shortfall in base pay.
7. Health care coverage that would IMPROVE once we grew.
8. A pay and benefits system that would seek to mirror SWA.
9. A West Coast base.
I hope for the sake of our interviewies and new-hires we've begun to tell the truth. My expectations were not met. That's OK, we just have to roll up our sleeves and start by filling out those surveys.
What will the pilots who come after us say if we were to be successful at blending the pay rates, bringing our pay system back to an industry standard slope, and putting the focus back on real dollars instead of the possibility of dollars some where in the happy future?
"Thank you."