Originally Posted by
BeatNavy
Does breeze pay less for airplanes from Airbus because they are new? Do they pay less for fuel? Do they pay less to paint their airplanes than jetblue or southwest does? Do they pay less for catering? No…they pay market rate. The one thing they pay less for is labor. Why should they get a pass on that? If they aren’t a viable business if paying market rate for labor, then they deserve to fail and Trent Porter deserves to be unemployed. “Success” and growing while chipping away at market share from other airlines (that pay market rate for labor) while being subsidized by their own underpaid labor is garbage and nobody should support that, startup or not. Especially since pilots aren’t getting any equity in the company. If there were some IOUs (stock options, profit sharing, etc), it’d be different. There isn’t. Same goes for Avelo and any other garbage bottom feeder airline.
Have you ever worked at a startup? Do you know how they work? I have experience working at startups and I never expected high starting wages - that’s not how it works. If people want to make more at the start, all of the legacies are hiring big time.
If Breeze can’t eventually get close to Legacy/LCC wages it will lose pilots who will get their desired wages elsewhere. It’s that simple. There won’t be enough Aussies to completely bail them out. Breeze will eventually have to pay more or watch pilots depart. Why anyone would expect Delta or JB wages at an airline startup in the first 12-18 months is beyond me. Those people should just skip the Breeze application and head straight to Delta, SWA or United. Good luck!