Originally Posted by
flyguy81
Once in a lifetime opportunity. I’ve been flying 121 for 18 years and I’ve never seen regionals offering CA pay and 6 figure bonuses just to work there with guaranteed interviews/flows. Never seen every major airline trying to hire 2000+/yr with upgrades measured in weeks and months vs years and decades.
We’re finally to a point where we can demand changes in our favor in every aspect of the contract and mgt has to agree because if they don’t….the other airlines will and people will leave.
That gives regional pilots tremendous leverage. It gives corporate/charter pilots great leverage. It gives ULCC pilots a lot of leverage. It even gives sw leverage. But how does that give an airline, that just hired and trained over 3,000 pilots post-Covid with no issues, leverage? Honest question. I don’t think very many, if any, voted yes out of fear from the mediator.
Looking at your attrition, it doesn’t sound like you have as much leverage as you think you do. Best of luck. I hope you guys knock it out of the park, but then again a lot of posters make it sound like they already are with all the OT they fly.