Originally Posted by
MNPS 50N50W
There you go again... LOW BALLING the rest of the pilot group.
There was NO response from Jef90
( aka. jef.corn..) after my recommendation that he inform the company the their should be a Union on the property...
But in all seriousness we need an enforceable agreement of some kind in place. In house or Union.
I mentioned that I do not believe that most of us know, that we have a Flight Crew Addendum in place, as the latest bid letter invokes ( now being punished for DHing on you own). They are quick to use it when it will punish us, but fail to follow it otherwise.
Last year there were several individuals that were timed out in November because they flew so much, while others were not called. On track to happen again this year.
Each year the company demands more than a hundred hours in CBT recurrent. uncompensated.
Once again. Unfortunately nothing will be done until WE as a group STOP undercutting each other for our own short term gain.
Here is the way I look at it, mexi is what they most likely will do, why? It’s the best for them COO and CEO to save money which helps keeps profit margins high. However would it be enough to keep Pilot attrition down and that’s simply a no, you may keep a pilot 6 months longer on average. If you want to keep Pilots until their dream job calls 80 hr first year FO with a sign on bonus and second year 100+, Captains usually double the number in all fields from corporate to regionals to major airlines, so whatever they set for FO should be double as a captain.
It’s going to be interesting if and when they roll out a compensation package since they are doing a market competitiveness analysis of pilot pay, we pay regional captain pay on the hourly, however we have no trip rigs no trip protection pay no dead head pay, so maybe the hourly pay is on the market where we lose is the work rules.
The way I look at is we can only look after ourselves nobody else I will do whatever necessary to take care of my family and make money, I don’t care what you or anyone else does at this company, I don’t care if there are people making more than me. Some here need to do the same, we all are trying for the greater good but we won’t retire here most likely, it could be possible but in this day in age doubtful.
Relax let’s see what happens may surprise you maybe not just don’t know