Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
I often see the popular opinion that PSA’s contract was concessionary. It gave us SAP. The absolute best quality of life tool in the entire industry, bar none. And it gave us our critical pay language which at the time (pre-company reserve grid manipulation and pre-arbitration) allowed line-holding pilots to regularly credit 125-145 hours /month. Effectively making our airline some of the highest paid regional pilots anywhere at that time. But hey, let’s not have details that matter get in the way.
Getting schedule flexibility and premium pay rules in exchange for lower pay rates and more jets from another carrier is not leading the industry forward. When the **** hits the fan, the premium pay dries up, and the good schedules go away, that still leaves you with the lower pay rates. And nothing else to show for it. Spin it how ever you want, PSA took concessions.
Regarding SkyWest, they are a scourge to unionized labor. You don’t really even have a contract per se. Can’t your company change your compensation without it even going to the pilots for a vote?
This sounds like some mindless ALPA rhetoric being regurgitated without a fact check. SkyWest has a legally recognized pilot agreement. Any reduction in pay rates must go to a vote.