Originally Posted by
nunyabiz
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.
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.
One of the most ridiculous things in our contract is that a junior pilot coming from a FDA can get trained and activated before in a seat you were award and you don’t get Slot Denial Pay. In my view, as long as someone junior to you gets activated in a seat which held on a bid, you should be getting paid at the higher pay rate which you’d have held. This industry is all based on seniority and some how ALPA drop the ball on this.