Originally Posted by Celeste

There you go... go to mesa... They have shiny jets! Who the ******* cares about paying bills??

How does pay and benefits affect QOL?? seriously?? How about not having to worry about where rent is coming from every month?? Student loans? Or car payment? Or not have to tote around a cooler full of room temperature food on your 4 day trip??? How about you break your iphone and want to get the new one?? Or what about being sick of winter WX and being able to just drop everything on your days off and run down to an all inclusive in Costa Rica on first year pay to get away for a few days??? Actually get to use your travel bennies...

$22 per hour starting pay is deplorable. Even the 2nd, 3rd, 4th year pay is lower than a lot of airlines starting pay these days. This idea that compensation doesn't matter that much because of 1) shiny jets 2) quick upgrade 3) 'its an awesome place' 4) whatever other meaningless carrot, is what is wrong with this industry. When close to $100,000 of education and training is required to get into an industry, we should demand better pay and benefits... stop making excuses. Other places have made decent strides to put pay closer to where it should be, but then there's places dragging the industry back into the sewer.