Originally Posted by
ChipChelios
Let's hope so. That's the only way they will sweeten the contracts awarded...if they are forced to because pilots are unwilling to start over somewhere else. I don't have much faith in that. 90% of my classmates at AWAC were former Comair pilots.
Originally Posted by
ChipChelios
Mainline won't do that! They don't need pilots bad enough! They see how we have scattered to the next Regional airline with quick movement in the past. It costs them less money to award the flying to the next lowest bidder.
The problem with doing this in the current market is the regionals don't compensate their pilots enough to have a surplus of willing pilots to work for them.
If Republic shuts down, where will the pilots have to come from? Republic. So lets say 100% of those pilots go replace themselves at the new carrier that was awarded the flying. How to you account for the months to a year that the planes aren't flying? How do you entice the pilots to work for Longevity year 1 and only 50% of the jobs are captain spots.
Republic management wants to get away with only paying new pilots more to attract them. The Republic pilots are saying no and rightfully so.
The only solution here is Republic to offer the Endeavor style bonus for all, or fold. Mainline will have to pay Republic more to do this, but maybe the mainline partners want out of their Republic contract. Could be an easy and cheaper way for the mainline airlines to do this.
Either way, the airline staffing the flying will have to compensate their pilots a lot more than the current Republic Airways does. If no one does, they will just have the same problems Republic is having.