Originally Posted by
Orangemx
Alright....I have job offers at PSA and one other one. I really don't know which one to roll the dice on. There are positives and negatives from both.
It is very confusing to know that PSA says that they are hiring 1000 pilots over the next two years but the classes being so small. Besides the low pay what am I missing?
I don't think you're "missing" anything.
Management thought that the quick upgrades would keep pilots coming to new hire class. They were wrong. Then they thought that bringing-on 24 additional, shiny, new 900's would keep pilots coming to PSA. Again, they were wrong. Then they thought that increasing the flow from 4/month to 5/month would keep 'em coming. It didn't. Then they thought that offering a $5000 signing bonus would keep 'em coming. It hasn't. Now they're praying that some kind of "cadet program" will bring the pilots. It won't.
I hear that the latest newhire class had 3 people in it. Unless (and until) PSA management (and AAG) stop offering gimmicks and gets serious about significantly increasing pay,....... there ain't gonna be 1000 pilots hired in the next 2 years,....... or maybe even the next TEN years!
But Dougie, Dion, and the boys really have their hearts set on those 900s. So it's my guess that they will
eventually get serious about staffing this place.
Originally Posted by
Orangemx
Is the schedule really as flexible as they advertise?
I don't know what they're "advertising", but yeah, you can modify your schedule, (after you become a round 1 line holder), to a significant degree,...... now that they've actually allowed the SAP to work
! So there's that.
Originally Posted by
Orangemx
What is the deal with crital pay in the other thread? What is that?
Critical pay was SUPPOSED to be trips paid at 1.75 x your normal pay rate, as an incentive to get pilots to voluntarily pick up trips (on their day(s) off, when staffing is short. They use to publish a grid showing the number of open trips, the number of reserves available for that particular day, and if the number of reserves were sufficient for that day. If the number of reserves were INSUFFICIENT for that day,..... it was "critical" that someone voluntarily pick up the trip,.... on their off-day(s).
Well, management decided to get cute with the whole critical pay thing by not posting the grid,.......
until AFTER the month is over and by arbitrarily changing the number of required reserves, sometimes to zero, (which is obviously ridiculous).