Originally Posted by
JJSmooth
If I were a 20000 hr captain on a B777 for CAl and they decide that everybody needs a 50% across the board pay cut, do you stick around and take it or move on. Of course with the current system you bend over and take it deep and hard. You do that because you know that if you go somewhere else you will be making day one FO pay all over again, just like the other new hires with a fraction of your experience.
The free market works in aviation today. If I decide CAL FO pay blows. I can go to India or China or pretty much anywhere in the world as a contract pilot and pull down close to 80 to 100g's right away.
The unions are a business people.
When your system decides to take a 50% cut across the board, industry wide, simply because they want to, who's going to protect you? When I walk in with the same credentials as you and get a 20% increase in pay are you just going to sit there and smile or wish someone would fight for you to get the better pay? When your company wants you to do an illegal flight and will fire you if you don't then who's going to protect you? Don't even THINK that the FAA will help you out. RAH has a self disclosure act where if they notify the FAA about something they did illegal they don't suffer the consequences. The pilot will though.