Originally Posted by
Realtalk
Pilot contracts improving? Hardly! Wow you get a hotel room once and a while for commuting in to the base we closed? Retention bonus? Too bad its from the money they saved all while paying you well below what you deserve.
Pay rates? Hmmm what's the f/o pay again? Still dismal compared to eveyother country. Oh maybe they are offering 200%? That's nice but I enjoy my days off and prefer not to work or get junior manned on my down time.
Name one regional that has GREATLY improved their contract....I'll wait.
The regionals are dying and shrinking. You can ignore that all you want.
They are struggling to find pilots to replace the ones that are leaving. They will shrink more drastically as the mainline hiring picks up further.
The only regional Delta owns, upped all of its pilots' pay $20,000/year, making 1st year pay $45,000/year. Delta appears to want their other regionals to shrink since they have not agreed to pay those regionals more money to compensate their pilots what is needed to staff the airlines appropriately. It looks like Delta's plan is to let the regionals shrink further and just replace the lift at mainline.