Originally Posted by
full of luv
Maybe the ULCC mgmt would prefer for there to be a significant deficit between their compensation and legacy compensation in general in order to have a certain amount of turnover in general. Maybe they don't want employees to reach the 12 yr rates in general so as a plan they just need to compensate their employees somewhere between regional pay and legacy pay, but not get too close as to cancel out the workforce from searching for more. I'm not even just referring to pilots, think FA's dispatchers, rampers (that aren't contract), etc. The ONLY employees that get market rates are upper mgmt.
Ridiculous.
Spirit came off strike earning more than AA, UAL, B6, USAir and many more. That was under Indigo.