Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
So your answer to ending substandard regional wages is to pay 150k for a major job? So with the big push to $15 minimum wage there is a solution. Pay 150k and be guaranteed a job running a McDonald's. Problem solved, no more substandard hourly rate.
Absolutely not.
The whole reason I imagine JB has these candidates pay in the first place is to test the waters to see how successful the program is with little monetary loss to them if it fails or needs adjustment. As well as keeping the pilots union from having a collective heart attack.
If the program succeeds (like it has for many other airlines) JB will begin to absorbe the cost like others have said.
After hounding a JB representative connected to the program through e-mail, she suspects successful canidates to make roughly 40k, maybe 50 once joining the line. Which currently is a liveable wage and not slurping sodium in a bunkbed. If the industry picks this up then the regional lifestyle would end or at the very least diminished dramatically.
This is merely speculation at this point.