Originally Posted by
YNWA1892
If we start losing airplanes and FOs and shrink to me that also means we made the wrong choice. That's longer upgrades and longer reserve for every one that stays here. Once again I still feel our issue is getting new hires more than retention. If management wants to keep throwing money at new hires what's to stop them? I hear a lot of this makes me want to leave, but when people really think about what it will entail to start over else where a lot less people will leave than we think I believe. So now we are in a position where management can keep giving new hires more and more money to come on board and the only way to fight them is for a bunch of 6-18 month FOs to leave. In my mind that's not us beating management in any way. We also have 200s we can park and or not use to deal with staffing issues for awhile as we get the 900s. Just remember what PSAs best recruitment told was... The quick upgrade and fast seniority movement. Every time a 6-18 month FO hits the street that new hire making more money's upgrade time goes down.
No one is going to start leaving for losing nothing. That 20K wasn't anyone's except AAGs to begin with. We didn't lose anything. I think the 5K - 15K bonuses won't do much to attract applicants though. It is absolutely going to take some meaningful contract improvements and an increased flow at this point to get people to want to come here. Our management is just middle management. They don't call any of these shots. They take their marching orders from their higher ups at AAG. This was AAG offering new hire bonuses and retention bonuses. This had nothing to do with our management. There is a reason they didn't show any signs of flexibility. It was a take it or leave it. We left it because we recognize that offering 20K retention bonuses to FOs is divisive and only ultimately serves to exacerbate the real problem. Our contract sucks. And this was an attempt by AAG to subvert our efforts to achieve better pay and working conditions by placating us with a bandaid bonus. If they want this place to succeed they are going to need to do better than that, and now they know that. If they stop deliveries, or park airplanes, the. You WILL see an exodus of FOs who have been here less than a year. I'm here through the remainder of 2016 personally. If things aren't looking up by then, I'll split for greener pastures. And let's be honest, there are plenty of those around these days.