Originally Posted by Tjeff

The one thing that worries me as a NH and going to AA from PDT…

(for those who don’t know PDT has some of the worst QoL in the industry, about 10 14 day of lines a month that’s it and that’s the max days off without vacation and the average is 11 days off a month for anyone there less than 5 years) rambled a bit…

… is 50-60% of new hires are coming from flows from wholly owneds which have subpar regional QoL which regional QoL is already subpar… so most of us are getting the biggest QoL jump in our careers and will probably be extremely happy with whatever AA currently has (maybe that’s part of the flow strategy) I know I will be that’s why I tried so hard to get hired outside the flow among all the other reasons.

Another about 35-40% are coming from the military who I’m sure have been moved around the country/world, on deployments away from family for months at a time so I’m sure they will be happy with set schedules knowing when they’re off not too worried about being reassigned mid trip. I can’t really say too much from the military perspective but from the outside looking in the QoL at AA seems better than a typical military QoL. Plus most military hires this is also their first part 121 gig.

Lastly the 10% of us off the street. A lot of us are still coming from said subpar wholly owned’s. Some from other regionals.

It just seems that the majority of the future pilots will just be happy to be at AA and will not have some outside perspective similar to a DL or UA QoL. This worries me because I honestly won’t know exactly what it’s like over there. All I’ll know is my seniority is moving quicker than my contemporaries hired at the other 2 and that I have on average 4 more days off a month. I won’t be only flying 4 on 2 off 4 on 2 off crediting 75-80 hours tops a month. I’ll be making triple what I am at a regional while working a lot less in 2 years. So I don’t know how we fight to improve QoL to be on par with DL and UA (which I won’t even know what theirs is) when a majority of the future pilots are getting their biggest QoL and pay upgrades of their lives.