Originally Posted by
WhiteMorpheus
Which business would that be...
I'm sitting here on a bankruptcy/merger contract and LOA from 2013 (ammendable in 2023) that caps FO pay at year 4 and CA at year 10. I get a 50% match on 401(k) contributions up to 2% of my gross earnings (1% in matching).
Yes, I'm at a regional, but yes, we're part of "the business." Also, I'm pretty sure neither Allegiant, nor Sun Country's contract is any better, if you want to take the small slice of the industry where Spirit sits.
If you only want to compare to FedEx, UPS, AA, Delta, United, Alaska, JetBlue, Frontier, and Southwest, then maybe you're right.
Sun Country is a charter company and Allegiant- well I don’t know what they are, they aren’t even open two days a week.
As for the state of regional airline pay, it sucks and it shouldn’t. The scope shouldn’t have ever been given in the first place and toss in 2008 and age 65 most of us lived there for much longer than we ever thought we would.
As for PSA, I still distinctly remember the day when it seemed like those of us at the regionals were actually starting to stand up and say enough is enough to the race to the bottom and vote down contracts even with the promise of new planes. Then PSA came from left field and voted in the biggest piece concessionary garbage on the promise getting airplanes. It absolutely screwed everyone so I don’t have any sympathy. You reap what you sow. Just like we at Spirit have to live with what we voted for. Down the road a flow to AA happened for PSA so you have that going for you and you’ll be at a legacy one day and making more than Spirit pilots.