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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.
Let’s be clear, I do not believe that a career F/O is anyone’s aspiration and will be where attrition for any carrier less than a legacy will retain pilots. From my discussion with many of the pilots who voted against 1108 it was the loss of the LOS that was stripped from the, because of the arbitration. I’m not surprised at this. And here Again is the reason unions are losing their grips. Cross-group unity is sparce at best. Look, Ricci probably isn’t going to pay major salaries, there is no surprise. But you will see improvements over the year or then you can expect a union push next year. Even the airline union model here at the legacy American is weak because of poor contract language. Give the LEC rep here in Charlotte a call and ask hi, how bad the scheduling (rescheduling) provisions are over here. The Dallas LEC and Dallas President runs the show.