Originally Posted by SkyHigh

I wish a start up like Skybus would smarten up and offer lines with much lower min guarantees. I remember that ten years ago the legacies had something like 55 to 65 hours a month minimum hours.

A LCC could offer 35 to 45 hour min guarantee lines and they could then rope in a lot of experienced pilots who are sidelined and would enjoy the part time flying job. Who cares about the pay so long as you were still able to work your mortgage company or dentist office?

The rest of the guys would be able to pick up trips to build up to 100 if they wished. Everyone would be able to get what they wanted and the company could pay crap wages still.

The best part is that they would have a larger pilot group to fend off strikes or busy times. All management would have to do it to raise overtime pay temporarily.

I understand that Skybus doesn't pay wages through training so there is little to lose in training costs. Like it or not I think this kind of thing is in our future. If a company can not pay a living wage then they must offer something else to tempt workers.

SkyHigh