Originally Posted by
Lvlng4Spd
Mesa caps at 8 for FOs ($3 less at 8 years than our 4 year proposed)
Compass caps at 8 (slightly higher at 8 years vs our 4)
Air Wisconsin caps at 8 (slightly higher at 8 than our 4)
With yearly scheduled increases to the capped rates, we are right in the ballpark. There will be grandfathering as well for those above 12 and 4 years.
You can make anything sound bad if you want to. I can make 0.95 per passenger seat per hour on a Dash-100 at year 4. Is it a concession to take an A330 FO position that only pays 0.45 per passenger seat per hour at year 4? They are surely "bringing down their profession" and should demand $275 an hour as FOs, right? Don't hate on us, you have no basis. We are working within an industry framework and a lot of noise is being made about $500-$1000 a year differences over 2 or 3 years. Save it for when you get to mainline, where you take a "concession" in year 1 and sometimes year 2 on small equipment (E190) compared to even capped regional captain rates.
Why would any pilot try to argue for concessions? Are you actually management, or trying to get into management??
I'm not "trying to make anything sound bad", concessions ARE bad.
The entire regional industry has been slowly sliding backward in pay and benefits for years, either with actual concessions or pay and benefits that haven't come close to keeping up with inflation. We finally have had Expressjet, Envoy, Republic, and Silver saying NO to anymore concessions. Why does anyone feel the need to give their parent company that's been making record profits of over $1,500,000.00 dollars a quarter any concessions??? I don't get it!