Originally Posted by
Shiner
To each their own. I've stuck it out for 3 years and will clear 50k with the bonus, have a 15 day off commutable line, and decent benefits. I'm not swimming in cash, but in supporting my family while padding my resume for the next level.
I'm not rushing out to a LCC because AA is my top choice and I'm giving the company the chance to make the flow work. I agree that they will need to make big changes to make it work. I disagree that they will slam the brakes on the flow in an attempt to trap guys here. That won't work, guys like me will bail.
LCC's are dropping their requirements and getting less competitive. I expect that to continue because the majors will hire LCC guys and deplete their ranks. There's plenty of other options if AAG uses the carrot instead of the stick. We'll see which way they go.
A lot of pilots will bail anyway as most I think would like to flow, but they won't pass up an offer for mainline equipment with a Jet Blue or Spirit considering the present situation there and that leaves you and others right back to where you are now in the future, that being unless Envoy can bring in more pilots then it loses, they will have to park aircraft at some point to honor the flow, so the question is, will Envoy flow itself into a weaker position or out of business ?
Good luck with that assumption, but also don't forget that the economic advantages of even 76-seaters at some point would be eliminated if pilot compensation were raised too much, so a catch-22 is in action making it difficult to offer too much, or at least enough to truly blunt outside attrition. They are in a real pickle now and a year from now, it will be a downright crisis.