Certain envoy recruiters are advertising on their personal Facebook pages that envoy has implemented an extra $23,000 signing bonus for prior 121 pilots. This now brings the new hire signing bonus total to $45,100. Now, let's add the 45K in addition to the first year pay of a new hire FO. It doesn't take a smart man to realize that first year FO's with prior 121 time are going to be making a hell of a lot more money sitting in the right seat than that poor guy that the company forced to upgrade against his will. It's truly sad that we're in this situation. Also, this is yet another instance of us finding out about a change to our bonus/pay structure on social media before we hear about it from the company or our union. The silence is deafening.

Forget about getting pay rates to match Endeavor. This is the companies counter measure. They will see how this works for awhile and only then will they even entertain the idea of permanent pay rates.