Originally Posted by
Route66
Well, so far so good for Flexjet pilots:
1. Reinstate longevity for transfer pilots
2. Increase First Officer compensation for better retention
3. Increase Phenom compensation
4. Increase voluntary overtime compensation as we focus on hiring
5. Reinstate individual employment agreements
Doesn’t sound bad to me. Guess you’ll just have to see how the year turns out.
1. Longevity benefits the transfers who took big metal out of seniority. It screws the FJ pilots to the tune of about 100 spots in seniority.
2. Wow, even you can make mid $70k working your a$$ of on an 8/6 schedule in the Ricci sweat shop. You realize that even the lowest paid ULCC’s are making $100k+ by year 2 with far better QOL, retirement, medical and benefits and far less work than the right seat of a Phenom or Lear right?
3. Yay. More money to be crammed into a Phenis Lego Jet.
4. Voluntary OT. The mythical Ricci rabbit. It’s all involuntary. You’re already on the road 17-19 days a month.
5. You mean those pieces of paper your V.P. of Red Label loudly proclaimed to be not worth the paper they were written on, but you better sign or else?
Your pilots got bent over in the first 30 minutes after the vote, and there will be no retention or hiring. You have 20+ uncrewed planes a day, can’t get guys to finish indoc or OE once they realize they’ll be in a Phenom for a decade instead of a Challenger, and have another 150-200 ready to march out the door in the next 18 months. FJ is a dead man walking, and youre whistling past the graveyard to believe otherwise.