Originally Posted by Throwitaway

Go to PDT, the less people we have here at PSA, the more pressure our company feels to accept our terms while negotiating increases to QoL.

Hate if you want, but this is the truth. Promote this place like the promise land and the company has no reason to change the status quo. If you want actual change to reserve rules and pay while keeping SAP, the company needs a reason to change. Full new hire classes proves that they can continue under current conditions and keep staffing, no reason to adjust the current work rules. Where are the changes to the reserve rules we've been hearing about since last December? Small gains, right TR? I call bullsh*t while you ride around in your Benz rental during company business.

If anything, reserve has actually become worse with scheduling parking hot reserve and garbage trips on people 5 days in advance without actually notifying them, in effect prohibiting them from swapping reserve days as they usually would be able to before this garbage LoA. And we've started force upgrades; I dont give a damn about the occasional opinion that "if people dont want to upgrade, they shouldnt be flying". They earned their seniority, its not their responsibility to cover the company's tail. Everyone has different objectives in this life and desire different outcomes from this career. No one should be forced to upgrade and commute to reserve when it wasnt part of the scenario when they accepted the position after interview. There is no pilot shortage, it is a pay shortage. A QoL shortage. Pilots will have no problem filling the staffing need when the reserve and pay situations are corrected. There are plenty of well qualified part 91 and 135 pilots who would come out of the woodwork for a set schedule and comfortable wage. This job at PSA isn't a "stepping stone", you have 76 people back there operating in the same airspace and weather as mainline, we should be compensated more appropriately.

Honestly, I hope the regionals will die all together, and I believe you should hope so too. We should all be making much stronger compensation. Every flight a regional completes is at 1/3 of the cost as a mainline crew would complete it for. AAG makes money hand over first because of the work we complete. It's in ALL of our best interest if this flying was conducted under mainline compensation rates. They need us right now, not the other way around...

Our pilots have gained next to nothing in probably the most pilot friendly industry environment we will see for the rest of our careers. Supply and demand, know where we fit. The flow is a gimmick. Do the math yourself, leave in 4 years vs flow in 8, you're missing out on over a MILLION dollars over the course of a career. You dont need the airlines, the airlines need you!

Forget the cheer leading that some people will post. "you're negative, this is a regional/stepping stone, my daddy is a captain etc etc". If all the WO got together and negotiated as such, we would all get paid and see improvements while we can. We are all just one missile strike, one recession, one terrorist attack away from keeping the current conditions OR WORSE for the next 10 years.

Do you think the company WOULDN'T barfain for compensatory rates immediately after the economy turns downward? Why are we accepting a delay in QoL increases now? Get it while the gettin' is good!

But what the heck do I know, my SJS faded years ago...