Originally Posted by
F9 Driver
+1!!!
If I had a few more years left, and some other non monetary issues, I'd be making getting hired at a Legacy my full time job.
I wish you all well on your job search beyond F9! The ONLY way we F9 diehards get a red cent more from Indigo than we do today, much less an "industry standard" contract, is when the RLA clock is run to the end or if the current contract fails to attract and retain enough willing & able pilots to execute on the business plan's flying.
This is the smartest most ruthless management team we've gone up against in the almost 20 years I've been here. Emotion, humanity or "what's right" don't enter into their thinking. Their business plan is the most predictable plan we've seen - and the most (only?) profitable one. If they must give some of their money to us, it will only be when they are forced to. Period.
I asked one of the pilots who recruits for F9 at job fairs what they are telling pilots to attract them to F9. They didn't have an answer. I hear that the HR Director's husband, a senior F9 pilot, is doing interviews now. He's also been quoted as saying that we are currently overpaid. So there's that.
That dude is a card carrying member of the A'holes For Life Society, so hell yeah, let him recruit and people will definitely think twice about working for F9 when he's the welcome wagon.