Originally Posted by
threeighteen
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.
I’m not ruling out making the jump. Dusting off the ol resume and updating the logbook. It used to be that there were a fair number of folks from Legacy airlines coming to FedEx. That trend may be reversing if a bunch of stuff isn’t fixed in our contract.
Originally Posted by
threeighteen
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.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a huge proportion of folks who blindly believe we have the best of everything. They fail to accept that other places have it better than we do and demand that we make changes to come up to industry standard. I agree with you on the items we have that are better. Those things shouldn’t be overlooked but far too many people use that fact to dismiss the other areas where we lag so far behind.
Us failing to demand significant QOL improvements will be our demise. We went after pay and retirement and it doesn’t even seem like that is going to impress anyone given some of the other numbers already agreed to at other places.
Bottom line, new folks have choices right now. That hiring pool they talk about may drain faster than they think as pilots decide to take or stay at the Legacy job they already have. Purple isn’t the slam dunk choice any more. Sadly, I don’t think management cares.