Originally Posted by
full of luv
Airline industry's Mgmt biggest coup over labor via the contract airlines growth of the 90s and 2000s has been the creation of a generation of pilots all willing to fly Airbi (or 737s) for appreciably less money than the legacies because "it's better than that regional" job they used to have.
The generation is bigger than one company so even if a lcc does stand up for itself there are others willing to fill their shoes.
I think I should get paid more, but let me ask you, if a legacy won't hire me and I wanted out of my corporate gig, what am I supposed to do? Tell that company that offered me a job to stick it because they don't pay legacy wages. I don't have a college degree, although I'm close. I have a black mark on my record and interviewed at one legacy carrier before their merger (a legacy carrier who paid pretty poorly I might add), didn't get the job. So now, because I'm trying to do better for my family, I'm a scumbag because I took a job at a ulcc? Again I think we should get paid more, but you keep acting like I'm some sort of scab for accepting a job at a ulcc. If delta, United or American called for a class date, I'd sure take it, but right now I've got a mortgage, electric bills and the kids gotta eat, so I've got to hold down a job at a ulcc that you act like it's taking money out of your pocket. Take your holier than thou attitude elsewhere, I get enough of that in church.