Originally Posted by
adanthony13
Has it gotten better since you started or is it staying the same or worse? How effective has the pilot group been with working with management?
Certainly there has been improvements, but when you’re at the bottom you can only go up.
As far as communication, my opinion is that the pilot group has expressed their concerns from day one. The pilot committee was formed almost immediately, as a way to effectively communicate with management. The BPC who doesn’t get paid for any of their time, went as far as doing managements work by gathering pay scales, benefits, contracts from other carriers. Surveys were done by the BPC that indicated the pilot groups main concerns. 1.PAY 2.QOL 3.attrition. Pay was simply addressed with “we can’t pay you more, we’re a start up”. well, what about QOL, can we make some improvements to the work rules and schedules? Nope, we’re a start up. As far as attrition their answer was “we’ll stop the operation if we have to, until we hire more pilots”
Working with management? I’ve seen guys and girls bend over backwards for the company to try and keep things moving.
The main benefit of ALPA will be organization. This firing from the hip thing isn’t working. There needs to be a contract to hold both sides accountable. It wasn’t all management btw. Breeze has had some very unprofessional pilots come through who only made things worse.