Originally Posted by
ProPilotBlue
There is **SOME** truth to what you're saying. People stay at Allegiant because they like not being on the road for 4 days, and they give up the pay in return. BUT I don't think that the B6 work rules are good enough to justify a disparity in pay. When we start negotiating the JCBA, we need to go for excellent work rules and pay. And frankly, if the combined carrier wants to attract and retain pilots, they need to understand that the pay rates attract candidates and the work rules keeps them. It takes both. I get that we aren't Delta, but we should be pay commensurate with their fleets that are common with ours.
There’s definitely a middle ground. We shouldn’t be comparing ourselves to legacies. We aren’t a legacy. We can use their lay to figure out what the marker calls for at the high end but we aren’t at the high end. We are a notch or two below and that’s ok as long as we have better work rules and qol items that support that reduction.