Originally Posted by
dualinput
It’s exactly the reasons we got our last contract. We had to start hiring lower time pilots and had a ton of training washouts. They added a sim session and that helped a little then XJT closed its atl base and we got an influx of experienced pilots but it was all temporary. After a bit the low timers got hired again and the washout rate ticked up and they were forced to the table to keep the growth plan on track. This isn’t different, it’s worse
A very real problem now is the attrition in management. no matter if NK becomes B6 or F9, most of management will not be coming along for the ride. That means most of them are fine tuning their own résumés and getting ready to make the leap themselves. It is not an atmosphere much conducive to fixing problems at NK because they too have an ‘on my way out’ mindset. Why negotiate a CBA? It’ll just be wasted effort, because a JCBA will still be required anyway. Besides, it might not be what whoever eventually owns the place wants for the starting position for the JCBA. More better to just take the golden parachute and go somewhere else rather than dealing with the messiness of the transfer.
The ones at greatest risk of getting screwed now are the senior guys with the most time invested in NK. For most FOs, they can hop to a legacy and break even financially on the switch and be right back to the same relative seniority in 2-3 years. For the senior guys, they’ll lose more and take longer to make it up.