Originally Posted by
OnTheRun
The new Nav Blue system is not commutable in my opinion and there will be some serious turnover as a result. If you come to this company you need to live in base or get a full time crash pad or home in base. If you go that option plan to spend your entire rotation in base with nothing but day trips. Every line in my base is all day trips and 0 overnights. Forget about hotel points. Also, plan to drive to and from work everyday you fly. They predicted 20% pilot turnover in the two pilots calls ago and it will happen. Pilots that have to drive 1-2 hours to work and end back at base every day will have2- 4 hours of commuting daily. I can name about 40 that will effect.
I’m certainly interested to find out. Being that there is currently close to 150 pilots, your estimate of 40 pilots leaving, which is slightly high (my opinion only), puts them at a 26% loss on the pilot group. As there is currently no shortage of talented pilots looking to come into our company, I don’t think they are going to have a hard time replacing them. We are seeing guys coming from corporate, Compass, spirit, allegiant, and retirees from the Majors
With NavBlue and the new shift towards day trips, they are making it pretty attractive to people that don’t want to live in hotels on their days on. Being home everyday is extremely attractive to some more than the money that is being offered. I’ve had plenty of retiring military approach me about the company for that very reason. They’ve actually spent REAL time away from home, not in hotels but in tents. Some of them want a break from being gone.
With all that being so long winded, the company is growing at a cyclic rate and hopefully we can maintain the current state of having a great pilot group.
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