Originally Posted by
Einstein2014
You know , it's a shame that the company have us so beat down that even if those pictures were true we wouldn't believe it until we could bid for it and start training. Thank god we still a 70+ seat pay scale. We should never get rid of it. It would around $55 an hour to fly something like that. We would not have trouble finding pilots on that pay and the company should know that. You gotta pay to get the experience. That's how it's always been in any other market and thank god it's back to that in aviation (pilot side).
Yeah, you'd think they would want pay to be the best pay at the regional level. However, my guess is if they could secure cuts to the rates in another long-term contract with the pilots they could turn around and offer a signing/retention bonus outside of the CBA. The latter has the benefit of being cancelled whenever management feels like it or if demand were to somehow plateau for a while. This is the danger of other pilot groups not having these bonuses codified in their contracts. It's all a temporary ploy to get bodies in the door and a smart management group would never get them written into a contract. I'm surprised more unions aren't grieving the bonuses since they aren't negotiated pay.
I remember when I was at ZW, ALPA several years ago rose a stink over the raffles that management was running for completing the IBT before a specific date. They saw that as compensation outside of the CBA. I can't remember how far that got but it's the same principle.