Originally Posted by
nunyabiz
Agree with all above. The aircraft bidding system here is absolutely terrible and is entirely about the Company not wanting to train folks. Our weak contract language allows it. It’s only one example of the Company completely exploiting the contract language against us.
I too would say that if you have offers elsewhere it might be a better choice than coming here. This place isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Dare I say I regret not being at a Legacy instead?
Hiring is about to grind to a stop and a majority of the MEM 777 and 767 training slots for next year are already filled. I’d expect what few new hires we do have to be directed to the 757 and Bus to backfill those who are finally getting their chance to swap positions after a two+ year delay.
Had I known the legacies were gonna recover from 2020 as well as they had, I probably would have made a better effort to go there too.
Our contract is a sick twisted joke, and the insane amount of time it takes to change base/equipment/seat here is only one example.
A year ago things were looking great, but now the company has expressed that they have no intention of compensating us for the BS we deal with.
Anyone coming here, please be aware that the company can revise you on a trip an unlimited amount of times without major penalty (you might get 1-3 extra hours of extra pay, IF you are lucky, but not guaranteed).
You can also be extended 84hrs into days off (yes, THREE AND A HALF DAYS) at the end of a trip, even if you're a line-holder.
If you end up on a fleet that goes to China, you're going to spend a lot of time being exposed to carcinogenic disinfectants sprayed on everything and you will be locked in a hotel room with the only extra compensation you get being an extra $100 per 24hrs that goes into a worthless "bank" that you can't even spend on room service.
There's a lot of other areas of our contract that lag behind the legacies in a massive way and unfortunately our pilot group is not well educated on that. A lot of guys here think we have the best of everything because they haven't been paying attention to what everyone else has been gaining in their contracts. We do have some great nuggets like having a real retirement plan plus a B fund (which is capped pretty low btw), good vacation, no PBS, and a few other things, but as far as everything else goes, we're lagging pretty hard and our current negotiators aren't even asking for QOL right now. Just $$$ and retirement.