Originally Posted by
jtf560
All captains did not get 30K since some had not been with the company long enough to earn the full 30L. The bonus works like everything else seniority or longevity based- the longer you are around the more you get. Honestly, I've always been against the bonus, but not because the junior get less. I just want all the money the group will get baked into the payscales where in the same way the junior pilots will get less. Seniority means something when you work in a union shop and that is what 99.9% of the good pilot jobs are. The bonus is purely longevity based. If a junior pilot doesn't like how seniority works, they now have the option of working at Flex.
I agree. The problem is that it wasn't a "bonus" for a job well done or whatever they claimed it was for. It was bribe money taken to concede something else (take your pick). They took the carrot and kicked the can MILES down the road for the rest of us.
And yes, any pilot 16.7 years seniority got $30,000. That was MOST of the captains.