Originally Posted by
RonnyK320
I dunno man. I have friends at pretty much every other airline, and as far as the big 3, Fed Ex and UPS, Frontier, Alaska, and Jetblue I don't see much of a difference in their quality of life and mine. My best friend is a UAL 320 captain and he took the whole month of July off. And except for Frontier, they are all making more money than me (although the PHL based guys I met the other day on a jumpseat said that everyone is crediting over 100 hours if they want to, so even Frontier is making more). Wide body FOs at the legacies are making more than me as a captain here. I don't think it should be that way.
My point is we really need a raise.
I don't think we should have to sacrifice much to get better pay. While nothing is free, LCCs are going to have to compete with legacies to get pilots in the door the next few years. There's no reason why we can't align our incentives with management in order to attract and keep pilots on property. I know Spirit doesn't see much attrition, but I think that will change as junior FOs get opportunities at legacies to fly widebodies. We have the airplanes coming and need butts in the seat to make money off those assets.