Originally Posted by
tm602
You are happy for their families. The families that see their father/husband/whatever slightly over 40% of the year because they have to be on a schedule with 228 days away from home per year to make a living where their airline counterparts work less and make more. And 200K as a small cabin SIC? Please.....
And anyone counting on the "estimate" can be brought to reality by trying to pay bills with the promise of "soft money". Go ahead, try to tell AMEX or your home lender that you'll give them an IOU on soft money that MAY or MAY NOT occur. We hillbillies call that "counting your chickens before they hatch". Its as silly as counting per diem as hard income.
I will be happy for their families for having the potential at making 200k as SICs if that’s what they choose as a family unit.
It’s very interesting to see the “math” and the aspersions cast here from a few who either think ALL pilots should make the same level of income for differing amounts of effort OR that making above a certain level of income (there’s most likely) is a bad thing because they, themselves, wouldn’t or couldn’t expend the effort.
Absolutely NOBODY is selling this TA as a pay cut or pay optimizer. Absolutely NOBODY in the company is doing the same.
It’s absolutely a pay accelerator for those who are going to work... to work.
The TA will likely will bring flight hour averages up for many... I don’t see the TA limiting flying at all, especially in new and growing fleets.
Legacy fleets being reduced? Sure. I get that.