Originally Posted by
Window_Seat
Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant, Virgin America are really 3%? Nahhhhhhhhhh. Regional mentality where a successful career is based on future growth. Meanwhile, I'm sure a majority of the FO's would leave to a legacy in a heartbeat. Flying around a 220 seat 321 is pretty sweet until you find out you aren't breaking 80k a year. But that tail is so high on the walk arounds, it feels awesome!
Funny how you forget how few years ago those cheap airlines along with their cheap pilots were making more than legacy pilots were. And i understand that legacies were in post bankruptcy contract, hence that is why F9 rates were better than most. Now F9 is operating under post bankruptcy contract and can not do anything till negotiations open up. You should know that since your airline has filled ch11 in the past.
NK also negotiated pre all the mergers (i think dl and nwa completed the merge after the contract was signed).
also you are 100% correct that we dont want to get paid more...not.
troll on now