You don’t know for a fact WHAT they are going to pay or WHAT the terms are going to be. Hell, UPS pays $48 an hour to start - IN 747s. They pay LESS than some regional FOs get. Hell, less than MOST regional FOs get when you consider bonuses. Are you griping about UPS?

You have no ideas what stock options or profit sharing or other inducements they are going to be offering, and you know what? If the package isn’t competitive people can and will go elsewhere. Nobody is going to force anyone to work for Breeze and if they don’t offer a competitive package no one will.

If people care to take a risk on a startup knowing - like the initial JetBlue pilots did - that if the operation succeeded they would be paid off handsomely and if it all went Tango Uniform they were pretty much wasting their time, what business is it of yours to tell them different. A couple years ago Frontier had a cr@ppy contract and so did Spirit, but those contracts got improved. Somebody going to work for one of them two or three years ago was taking a risk, but that was their choice.

Legacy or nothing just gives the legacies greater power under the RLA. You seriously think AA will ever be released to strike in your lifetime? I sure doubt it. But releasing Breeze pilots to strike...? Meh, the NMB wouldn’t really care.

More employers give pilots MORE leverage, not less. If you don’t think the recently inked contracts at NK and F9 haven’t given the guys flying at SWA and the legacies more leverage with their management you are wrong.