Originally Posted by
Excargodog
What I said was that first year pay ought to be better. I made the same statement in the F9 forum (whose first year pay is better than that of NK) and on the UPS forum (whose first year pay is amazingly even worse). Now you can toss all the ad hominem you want at me, I can take it. What you can’t do is justify a first year pay that is literally lower than the first year pay at many regionals. Nor can you justify a claim that 300 pilots flying in the right seat of NK aircraft aren’t ON PROPERTY.
First year pilots are on property. Prospective pilots are not.
As we grow and new hires spend longer on the right seat and longer on reserve, shoring up the mid level FO pay gap and some sensible reserve flexibility is what will keep people here.
Fill that insurance gap? I’m all for it.
Incentivizing recruitment? That’s on management.