If you see AAG making the assumption that WO pilots won’t be able to leave for jobs at other legacies or WN (or other quality major/LCC opportunities), is it fair to say that you believe WO compensation will always be significantly lower than the top-paying regional airlines and roughly as they are currently, relatively speaking? (ie, if top-paying regionals are paying 1st year FO’s $50-55 per hour as they are today, then the WO’s will never pay more than than $38-ish per hour for 1st year FO’s?)
Originally Posted by
Otterbox
AAG cares about cost efficiencies in its work force. Their goal is to get the job done as cheaply as possible, with quality a secondary consideration.
As far as being worried about people leaving, part of the WO setup is the idea that folks recruited into the WO won’t want to/ be able to leave, so they get 12 years of them working at a discount rate as a WO pilot and the rest of their career at AA working at a rate that’s lower than their peers at Delta et al.