Originally Posted by
MidsizeSUV
AAG isn’t dumb. They know if they hire a WO pilot before flow they gotta pay the bonus money to them AND to the WO pilots that have to flow anyway. It makes 0 sense for them to hire you or me while we’re still on property. If you voluntarily leave the WO, they don’t have to pay you a dime in bonuses.
Am I missing something? If you took the bonus you have that money in the bank. If you wait until your flow to mainline, you get an additional 70 K plus the 50 K annual bonus. If you go straight to AA outside of the flow, they’re paying you 70 K anyways but not 50 K in retention bonus. How is AA saving money by not hiring you outside the flow? If you didn’t take the bonus they’re not gonna pay you a signing bonus anyway.
For what it’s worth I’m hearing now of more and more pilots getting CJO’s that aren’t anywhere near flow. Either the dam is about to break or more of us are starting to figure out the magic formula.