Originally Posted by
Systemized
Do you honestly believe management is going to agree to an increase while thier expanding and still filling classes? It's not going to happen this year, that's almost a sure bet. Pilots from deadend regionals and other crappy jobs will continue to jump ship and help management staff the airline. As it appears right now, the 8-month upgrade will be around for at least another year. The contract at PSA is better than compass, Mesa and Transtates.
Yea I do think they will agree to an increase... But I've been wrong before so we'll see. Latest word I heard was that AAG wanted up to 16 p/month and PSA said no because they would not be able to handle the added attrition off the top right now. There is already a shortage of FOs because of how backed up the training pipeline is. Anyway, I heard 10 p/month is what they are going to go with. They may delay that until this summer sometime to hopefully get some more FOs through the training and out to the line. And we are losing guys to other places than just AAG as well. I've spoken with a handful of CA's in the training department who are going to UA, UPS, JetBlue, etc in the coming months. I think there will be some real movement off the top come the end of the year.