Originally Posted by
Firsttimeflyer
I still stand by my 20%+ increase in pay to take on and early 2 year extension. And that is DOS, add 5-8% for year 2 and I feel confident we can push our other current contract problems back for another 2 years.
Stop posting that garbage. Not going to happen. And there's enough lurking readers here who will do the bobblehead thing and start expecting your absurdly unrealistic target.
The inflation rate is less than 1% and you're expecting a 20+% pay raise?
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Originally Posted by
Bluewaffle
For what it's worth when management came into talk to our new hire class they all but admitted they don't think they'll have enough pilots to fly a new type (~100 seat) jet in 10 years. They seemed focused on hiring enough just stay ahead of attrition for now.
They're catching up on manning, but 1000/yr newhires isn't going to get us there very quickly. When I got hired in 2000, we were hiring 28/wk. With two training facilities, we should be able to hire at least 1500/yr. They need to keep training running full speed through the summer, but they can pump out a lot more than they're currently doing.
Consider this: regionals are dying. Regionals have training facilities that we could use to pump out E190/195 pilots quickly. And buy a bunch of used E190/195s. I consider the CS100 dead; Bombardier doesn't have enough capital to fire up the production line.
Training E190/195/CS100 pilots has zero impact on training pilots for other aircraft because they won't be using the same training facilities. It's a completely different fleet that will require its own training facilities and training staff. Whoever gave you that answer is suffering from anal-cranial inversion. And shame on everyone who listened to that for not calling him out on that statement.