Originally Posted by
tcco94
Rather take a pay increase to year 2+ than first years. But making $40/hr starting would probably increase classes even bigger....
Then again we don't have any troubles hiring right now. All classes are 30+ for consecutive months in a row, even with 2 running a month. (on the CRJ at least)
They also said that they would not raise pay when first year was $30/hr, low and behold they raised it to $36.50 even with classes were full so that they could stay competitive. Most regionals aside from Mesa, Horizon and Compass are paying more than we are anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if they were forced to negotiate something eventually, especially with upgrade times matching us at all the wholly owned carriers. What that will do to our remaining competitive, I have no idea.