Originally Posted by
Excargodog
So you want to START at the WO as a nine year FO and be off the chart by the time you upgrade to captain. How desperate do you think they are? Remember, the purpose of the flow FROM THE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE is TO STAFF THE WO because it’s cheaper than bringing that flying to mainline. So what you are proposing is that - except for the OTS guys - every guy that flows is going to cost mainline an extra $50 an hour over what a street hire would cost them?
You seriously believe that will fly with management? Really? And that they wouldn’t slow flow to a crawl to save money by hiring as many OTS from non WO regionals and the military as possible?
Management exists to make money for the stockholders, not to make their regional feed guys happy.
H€//, the existing pilot group wouldn’t allow them to negotiate that deal even if they wanted to - which they don’t - because the pilot group considers it a zero sum game, that any extra money given to flow guys comes out of money that would have otherwise gone to the group as a whole. You couldn’t even get a majority of the mainline pilots who CAME FROM WOs to vote for that deal.
Ok, but this entire discussion is because there is a very real chance there won’t be enough OTS to staff them all, hence airlines fighting over each others feeder pilots. The entire pint was to try and think of a way to keep more regional pilots in the flow for one carrier.
I feel like you are arguing for the way things “have” been, not the way they will be. Anyway I always appreciate your reply’s so I will give it some more thought.