Originally Posted by
Big E 757
Ok, if you say so. My cousin is a mortgage broker in Ft. Lauderdale. He called me one day a few years ago and said “Dude, I thought you guys made more money. “ He said he was doing a mortgage for a 787 Captain that makes $98K. I asked what company the guy worked for and he told me. I had never heard of it, but it was whatever company NAI was using for their FLL base. I explained what was going on.
Why did you take the job in the first place? Did you feel that compensation was reasonable for a 787 pilot? The problem with this industry is that whenever some Airline starts up with crap pay, there is never a shortage of pilots with shiny jet syndrome that take the job, then complain that pay sucks, and then ask ALPA for help. If no one took the job in the first place, the company would be forced to raise pay to a more competitive level. But let’s all feel sorry for the FLL NAI pilots who lost their job and celebrate those that landed on their feet. Sorry, I’ll pass.
If no pilots would have taken the FLL base, then Norwegian would simply have not opened the FLL base. It was a tiny base, and ultimately inconsequential in Norwegian's operation.
It should be noted that the FLL pilots were not "outsourced" pilots, they were Norwegian pilots, included on the Norwegian Pilot Group (NPG) seniority list. They were also on the NAS certificate, not the NAI certificate, and that would not have mattered anyway as all NPG pilots were on one seniority list regardless of which certificate they operated under or to which based they were assigned. They were working under a U.S. based employment contract, just as the LGW pilots were working under a UK employment contract, the CDG pilots were working under a French contract, and the CPH pilots were working under a Danish employment contract. The guys on the NAI certificate were the 737 guys based in SWF and PVD.