Originally Posted by
shortspatula
What do you mean oh wait? ALPA was voted in. There’s tons of options out there definitely but the ones coming to breeze have specific reasons like seniority or bases. Me personally I don’t feel like going back down to the bottom and being a number again at the big corporations. Yea there’s seniority movement even at the legacies now but they probably can’t beat the seniority movement here either. Pay rates at least are acceptable, we are at least frontier/spirit pay but improvements coming. With the recent pay raises at delta and JetBlue and I’m sure others coming soon, they will have to increase compensation again if they want to have pilots for all the planes coming.
You can’t argue with people on APC. Just let them act like they are getting the win in the argument and move on. I remember sitting standby reserve in the crew room, commuting and being away from home 15+ nights a month. You gotta do something to make yourself “feel” superior.
I find it fascinating that so many people come on the Breeze forum and try and convince Breeze pilots that it’s so bad. This is my third airline, and BY FAR the best QOL and money for the little amount of work it is. All we do is fly an airplane for a job. You think I’d be better off 1 or 2 leg commuting to some giant city I don’t wanna even be in, overnighting places I don’t want to overnight, and flying with old crusty captains I don’t want to fly with? All for what? Maybe 5 years down the road “break even” to what I’m making now?? Where will breeze be at by then? What if the age 70 law passed? How’s all that seniority list movement gonna look for you at UAL/DAL/AA? Guess what, I’ve seen it first hand to a family member when it went to 65, you’re gonna stagnate. For a LONG time. I’ll never come on here and say someone went wrong for going to a legacy, but let’s keep our head out of our as$es and understand all we do is fly a plane for a living. You think making 275k a year, rather than 250k is really gonna push you over the edge?