Originally Posted by
soakingpilot
In fact I'm good with my seniorty already at SKW but do I want what others are getting for me and everyone else but not sure why you Rickair7777 are so against that? Then again you say most regional pilots dont care about first year pay or sign ons ? well as you said yourself "there's a reason for those bonuses"
Next.
I'm all for free money, just no more for new-hires because that comes at the expense of all the rest of us who have committed years of our lives to this company.
Across-the-board raises of any sort are of course great.
I'm not enthused about retention bonuses, keep in mind that pilot pay is mostly a zero-sum game, that is any compensation to any part of the group comes at the expense of the rest of the group.
What bonuses allow the company to do is to redirect compensation to certain pilots SO AS TO BENEFIT THE COMPANY. This is done AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER PILOTS.
Retention bonuses, assuming you have to obligate to work for a period of time, have two issues...
1. An upwardly mobile pilot really cannot lock himself into place. What if DAL calls? So he won't take the bonus. The people who will take the bonuses are generally folks who were staying anyway so two pilots doing the same job are getting different pay with no real benefit to the company.
2. No regional can offer bonuses which would come anywhere near the lifetime compensation of a major airline pilot. So retention bonuses will ultimately not work anyway.
I'd rather just have the entire pay scale raised across the board.
You cannot lose sight of the fact that regional pilot pay is zero-sum...they're only giving us X amount of money as a group so think carefully about how it's allocated.