Originally Posted by
Nevets
If you compare with other regionals on upgrade time, growth, first year pay, bonuses, career progression, you'll see that we have NONE of those. Increasing first year pay will not bring pilots here that weren't already wanting to come here. The biggest factor in recruiting is upgrade time/growth. If you kept first year pay as is but decreased upgrade time to 2 years, that would bring in more new hires than increasing first year pay to $40/HR and keeping our 8 year upgrade, no growth, no bonus, no career progression.
Though I see your point, I feel like you are viewing this problem through the wrong lens. You see it as a veteran 121/XJT pilot. I think most 21-23 year old kids aren't informed enough on the other stuff and simply go to the pay scale. If you think most young pilots to this game understand scope or can see far enough down the road to think about retirement, I think that's a miscalculation.