Originally Posted by
duck of death
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.
Either way you leave Envoy, you have to be replaced. If you get hired elsewhere then AAG doesn’t have to pay you either. If you stay to flow then Envoy gets you for longer.
The $2K a month up to $50K is a drop in the bucket compared to the other $100K (30+70) of that equation, especially if hired outside of flow. AAG didn’t come up with the idea of a RETENTION bonus to hire you early.
While you may have that first $30K in the bank, if you leave you have to pay it back.