Originally Posted by
HowDoIStall
Hey everyone,
Haven't paid attention to the regional game in a while, but thought I'd pop in and see what was going on with all the pay raises and such. Did ya'll unionize or something and I didn't hear about it? I keep seeing SAPA and a TA mentioned, but I definitely feel like I would have heard about you unionizing. If so, I'm stoked for you all!
Union Status: Still no union. The insulting TA is pushing many pilots to support joining ALPA. The reality is that management will present a second (or third) offer that will placate pilots enough to no longer view joining ALPA as expedient.
Pay Raises: Captain Pay up significantly, FO pay raised barely above inflation and will squarely put OO at bottom of the regionals for FO pay over the next four years as Endeavor will for sure leapfrog OO and Horizon will minimum match OO. Everyone else has already been ahead of OO for months.
New TA: very few QoL improvements and one QoL step back (EFB notification of reflow at end of trip, mostly rough for commuters). Pilot Profit Sharing gone. Captain retention bonus payment inexplicably delayed a month and a half for those already owed it, and completed erased --err, "built into the pay scale" for future captains.
Carrot: FOs can get Captain pay at 750 hours, but that's ONLY if they have an unrestricted upgrade bid in meaning they'd have no choice on domicile. And I'm less sure about this next statement but I believe the unrestricted bid also means they'd have to take the first captain upgrade assigned regardless of airplane (I could be wrong on this point).
Subplot: Commutair and Mesa announced massive pay upgrades days before and after our TA, making our TA somewhere between laughable and insulting.