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akfrtdwg 57
You’re actually incorrect. Just because a company is ACMI doesn’t mean sufficient revenue isn’t generated to pay their Flight Crews on par with UPS or FDX. But we are consistently paid less because people come here with a couple mindsets. They are ‘You’re only an ACMI pilot and not on par with Brown or Purple.’ And ‘I’m only here til someone better calls me so I have no real skin in the game.’ Both of which are insulting to the people that are here for the long hall. One, they just look down on ACMI pilots and two they are selfish enough just to come here and not bother to help try and make it better.
The ugly truth is, these companies can afford to pay mainline rates. If management couldn’t they wouldn’t be setting themselves up for major bonuses every time your turned around. They wouldn’t be paying themselves on par with mainline counterparts. Why is it they think they deserve equal pay but we don’t? Don’t fall into that ‘It’s only ACMI’ trap if you end up getting skin in the game.
Interesting discussion. Unfortunately Stockholm Syndrome is real at AAWW. Like a spouse that's been beat for decades many here believe we'll never get or deserve compensation on par with FDX or UPS and should just take what we get. Meanwhile Atlas makes 1 mil a 74 flight and refuses even a 1% across the board pilot raise for this more hazardous flying in the era of COVID-19. "Any increase in pay would put the company out of business". A more accurate management statement is "No raises for pilots, as it would take the extra profits we're making out of our executives pockets." I can bet their attitude going forward will be the recession is killing our business so we'll need you to take a pay cut, but be grateful to us you still have a job.