Erroneous question in two different regards.

1. NK management has already demonstrated that they are out the door, so they aren’t going to negotiate anything They're leaving it to whatever management group supersedes them.

2. PreCOVID, there was a LOT more than 5% first year guys. Growing 15% per year with three year upgrades, ~52% of pilots were CAs and ~48% were FOs, meaning nearly a third of the FOs WERE first year.

And with cheap (less than $50k a year) replacements, NK management had no incentive to either raise first year pay OR bring FO or junior CA pay up to industry standard.




Had we made them pay through the nose for every newbie brought on board they might have paid the more senior guys more to avoid attrition. As it was, we let them have a contract that made filling vacancies cheap for them and they used that to hold down pilot pay for everyone.

Prove me wrong.