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 a myopic viewpoint and apparently management is very myopic on this subject. Anyone paying even the slightest amount of attention knows that regional FOs aren't flying and the advice given on every mentorship forum, chat, etc, etc is NK type rating and bounce. So the choice is stay at the regional and not fly, or come here, get typed, put the hours on the log book and leave. It's pretty clear that we have to hire that much just to TRY and stave off attrition. It's only going to get much worse if management doesn't come to the table with market rates for everyone and NO concessions.