Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
Your management has 0 incentive to bargain. It’s a lose/lose proposition for them in the current environment. They know that even if they beat the legacy pay rates by 10-15% it still wouldn’t mean they are all of a sudden able to attract a wave of new hires. Hard to argue with 1-2 year upgrades and new hires going to 777 and 787.
It will take the industry slowing down for some reason for you to gain any real leverage. And the U.S. airline industry has been capacity constrained since Covid. So fat chance on getting released anytime soon. Good luck. I foresee a long fight.
You are looking at hiring as the catalyst. WN wants and needs to change the incentive pay for coming to work and/or dragging the extra weight during the next meltdown. SWAPA Is not giving any more side letters like 2x pay for picking up along with POT for all that come to work . The last meltdown was almost 1.5 billion and that does not include the bad PR they are still carrying in the public view . Wall Street is now tuned into the pilot crisis.