Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
So you're saying take this and live to fight another day. Quite a change from the 2007 "**** new FOs" mantra by 9E ALPA for the payraise LOA they turned down. And your theory all falls apart when there are no upgrades. Then they are still stuck at $39/hr and that is a problem. You can't control when planes come and go, but you can control your payrate you have while all that crap happens.
Compensation is a function of many things but current first officers aren't making $39. They are making $39 for at least 900 hours and $20,000 bonus. That's $55k without flying extra or per diem. The whole reason this happened was first officers leaving for other opportunities. In the future if compensation is too low this will happen again. So things are covered on that front. This current package is a way for the airline to grow. At the end of the day there may be a time where things again stagnate and the bonus expires and again $39 will be what some first officer have to live on. Once again they can seek life elsewhere and the company can choose how to adress this. One reason the company might not want to raise FO pay scale and make it longer is this would encourage first officers to sit there. All the 7-9 year first officers will be offered upgrade in the next year and then we will quickly get back to first officers with less than 2 year seniority.