Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
As of now there’s no reason to raise training pay. Classes are full at 30 people per class weekly. If that can continue remains to be seen. I’m sure there’s less regional applicants but they have shown they are willing to take cfis off the street. Classes also have probably on average 85-90% show rate with at most only a couple people deciding not to show. They are easily pumping 100 people through training each month right now. So they don’t have as big of a problem attracting people. If you can’t stomach taking a pay cut to get further ahead it’ll be nightly tough to leave your regional as a captain making $250k per year just to drop down to to 90k per year at a legacy. In the industry rarely if ever can you get ahead financially without taking a temporary cut.
That’s definitely something I’ve been thinking about. I did say I might be willing to swallow the first year pay but the training pay is insulting. There’s no way to spin that any other way- it’s insulting. When I was doing research about who to enter the industry with Republic had crap training pay (hasn’t changed) and I was insulted by that but I said to myself, “well it’s a regional gotta start somewhere and pay your dues.” Spirit IS NOT a regional.