Dear Ameriflight
I regret to inform you that your $1.80 raise will not stop the slow and steady pilgrimage out of this company. I fear Ameriflight has missed the mark entirely for line pilots. Ameriflight should not be concerned about keeping a pilot here for 12 years. Ameriflight should be concerned about how to keep a pilot between 6 months to 3 years after hire date. (Because let’s be honest, nobody should be here flying the line after 4 years.)

Ameriflight, I would recommend the following. Keep the $1.80 an hour raise the way it is and absorb the turbine retention into our hourly pay. The current 2nd year turbine bonus for a metro is $4,450. At 2,080 hours (the annual hours worked in a full-time job) That equates to $2.14 cents an hour. If you combine the current raise with the turbine retention bonus it would equal a $3.94 cents an hour bump.

THAT IS A RAISE!!!! Why would you do this? Because I am going to lose ½ of my turbine retention bonus to taxes. If you fold the turbine retention bonus into our hourly pay it would equate to more money coming home with me. This ridiculous $1.80 raise barely covers the hike in insurance premiums I was hit with in February. The turbine retention bonus is bullsh*t. Nobody stays here for that, it only prolongs a few months in which an employee might stretch out his resignation.

Ameriflight, Thank for the experience and the good times. I will bid you farewell when my contract is up and I find another job that will pay me what my skill is worth.

No hard feelings