Old 03-14-2019, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by preflight View Post

Continually screwing the bottom guys on a seniority list is unsustainable in a tight labor market.

We could do better than "it's always been like that" if we choose to...
And yet ‘we’ don’t. Look at Jet Blue, Spirit and Frontier. New hire pay the first year is generally LESS than the new hires were paid as captains at the regionals they came from. Nobody wanted to invest a dime of negotiating capital to make sure the new hires weren’t screwed. And first years at legacies aren’t generally a WHOLE LOT better, not when you look at training pay and the fact they are then going to spend a year or more on reserve. It’s not until people are already on board through their probationary year that anyone seems to care about them.

Kind of like fraternity hazing.
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