Originally Posted by
fcoolaiddrinker
I wouldn't read to much into the colas. F9 has always offered them until the recent hiring boom. Doesn't matter the time of the year. There is no hidden agenda. It's something they have always done (12 years at least) to try and save $ when overstaffed for whatever reason. It's as simple as that.
People want to hear and believe what they want. Quote above is right, nothing more, nothing less. F9 has done this for quite sometime.
This company cannot properly staff anything! Sometimes too thin on pilots sometimes too much. They could not staff properly a taco stand!
Quit getting to the point that the "sky is falling" mentality. Quit whining about growth,upgrades etc. Everything is cyclical. Good times and bad.
If they promise you two year upgrades, take it with a grain of salt, pure and simple. If you do not like what you hear then go somewhere else and do not let the door hit you on the way out.
I am not trying to be insensitive, but try to put yourselves in the shoes of our pilots who could not upgrade for 8+ years because of bankruptcy and other maladies. I do not think they want to hear your whining about COLAS and "I was promised a two year upgrade" BS!