Originally Posted by
flydiamond
the music stopped when we began only being able to hire about 15 per month (and decreasing) instead of 25-35. It will stay stopped until the new contract is completed whenever that is. Do the math, if we have 25 bases and only hire 15 a month, I wouldn’t count on anything. Dsm is not the revolving door it was a year ago. No reason it won’t be the new TYS where pilots have been waiting a year now.
January starts 20
guaranteed RATP new hires from the flight school pipeline program. Their flight school cost will be subsidized and details on their training contract should be announced next month. So that's 20 a month plus the 10-15 others that want to work for half regional pay. Just a rumor but I heard that an agreement with a second flight school is being negotiated so any negotiation leverage we thought we had is quickly going away. Paying for ratings and replacing attrition is much much cheaper than giving the whole pilot group a large raise. As I've been saying for a long time, expect no TA for years.