Originally Posted by
MatchPoint
friend, you need to recheck your numbers and stop posting that others are wrong when you in fact are the one who's wrong; that's not wise. Our New Hire base rate is 40/hour, not a "fixed" $3000/month. $3000/month was the old Airbus new hire rate whereas the old E190 new hire rate was $42ish/hr. Plus we get paid 85 hours and 24/7 per diem during training and all deadheads pay above guarantee which has caused me to average around 80 hrs/mnth on RSV. So my first year at Airways my total compensation will be just shy of $50,000. Sure it's more at DL and UA but our first year pay will be $68.22 by Jan 1st, 2016. The company wants it and so do we.
Key words there. The company both mainline and the regionals do not want to pay regional pilots more. Kirby flat out said they want the regionals to be a stepping stone to the majors. Of course they'd rather utilize the money for mainline pilots. It however does not take a rocket scientist to play the system here. I fly 80-85ish hours per month and credit 130-140 with SAP.