Originally Posted by
Jersdawg
The bottom line IMO is that the flow needs a track record at the pace they are advertising in order for it to be a successful recruiting tool. AAG is trying to have their cake and eat it too by keeping first year pay at $26/hr. Until the flow is a bonefied 5.5 years as they claim, it's a secondary recruiting tool only, and new hires will follow the money to other regionals who offer $37-40/hr first year pay. AAG needs to pony up if they want their experiment to work correctly, and it's not just ENY having these problems - PDT and PSA are having the same exact issues. It is going to fall apart unless they do something soon.
This simply can't happen. By the time the flow is 5.5 years (I'll believe it when I see it.) it won't be projected to be 5.5 years anymore. Very very few pilots will have the chance to hit the 5-6 year mark. And IF they do the pilots that get hired at that time will have an 8+ year flow at a minimum. That is per the contract calculated at an uninterrupted maximum contractual flow possible.
This 2.5/5 is a projection. It's looking out into the future to see what will likely happen. Envoy doesn't have a 5.5 year flow but they are projecting to have x number of pilots stay and not flow, y number leave through attrition and z number of people flow over to AAG. What ever z ends up being the take that and divide it out by average flows per month and bam you get an approximate flow date.