Originally Posted by
Irishblackbird
It would nice if they just made us competitive with the hourly rates, instead of coming up with hocus-pocus ways of paying us to do more work while not really benefitting us. Guarantee their problems of getting people to cover open time would go away quick.
No company wants to raise hourly rates because then they’re locked in. Let’s say the economy takes a dump and now all of a sudden everyone is getting min guarantee lines. Under a tiered system, pilot costs go down because less people are flying into those higher paying tiers. With a pay raise, there’s no way to cut costs without a concessionary agreement.