Originally Posted by
123AB
I really agree with you. I sure hope there is some focus on decent improvements to FO pay and QoL improvements. For FO pay, I am hoping to see it moved up to at least $60 an hour for Year 1. Of course I’d like more, but I am “managing my expectations”. Also hope to see at least one additional day off each month and several other QoL improvements as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see a laundry list of things, but these are just a few aspects I hope to see.
As an FO I really hope for what you listed above, but I don't think it will be even close to that.
Best thing for FOs to do is take the training and type rating, get a 1000 hours of 121 time, then bounce to ULCC or even to AA WO carriers as DEC.
As long as OO can maintain eating the training costs and have a line of brand new CFIs waiting months for a class date there is no reason for SGU to raise FO wages. The training costs are not our problem and come out of a different budget....and maybe OO has planned for those costs anyways.
I think they are going to make it harder for captains that they already have to leave by increasing pay and they are going to put incentives on upgrades. Incentives still won't come with career progression and will probably lock upgrades into OO for a minimum of 2 years.
Without gaurantee of career progression outside of the company within a reasonable amount of time- I see NO REASON TO UPGRADE unless they are offering mainline wages (see envoy LCA pay) ..... And that is a long term solution for the pilots in the realm of reality.