Originally Posted by
Waitingformins
Cujo, this could be the biggest oppturnity ,in your career, for you to stop the whipsaw by demanding job rights for your crj pilots when they are losing planes to a sister company. You should be fighting for them to have the option to keep their flow spot, longevity, domicile, seat, and a faster seat progression at PSA than they have now at Envoy. Instead you just want the company to suffer so you can add another dollar an hour to the top of the captain pay scale, and you have no leverage unless the company wants something; you don't care about the pilot needs so much as finding your leverage and using it for the senior group. Please prove me wrong I have no intention of displacing another pilot off their own airplanes. The only reason I came to PSA is because it stunk worse every else.
I would have no problem going to envoy if you keep them and got the 170s,if I didn't get laughed out the door. The problem here is your trying to maintain an environment where there is an incentive to say at a regional for 18 years. When we will all be gone in 5-7.
There will be increased hiring at all the LCC and legacy carriers and our guys will have flow to AA at under 6 years as a backup. If the goal is to get to a major, we all agree that demand will allow for sufficient street hiring and obviate the need for flow. That isn't going to happen overnight though. However, real flow is a nice insurance policy to have.
you obviously have no idea what we were fighting for based on your misrepresentations. The problem isn't CA pay being too high; the problem is FO pay being too low. Endeavor proved that with their bonus money. No upgrade in sight, but their classes are full because they're paying them.