Originally Posted by
echelon
Oh, raising only years 1-5 is going to solve attrition? See how many people, who are a few years in at AS and debating leaving, decide to stick around knowing that after year 5, they'll be right back to being drastically undervalued relative to the industry. People don't plan a career move around years 1-5, they plan around TOS, where they'll ideally spend the vast majority of their career.
This is one of the dumbest things you've posted here.
The point was to stop attrition. NOT stop lifers from leaving. Something like 90% of people leaving are sub 5 yrs. Once you get enough years at a place, the golden handcuffs are on tight. Years 1 to 5 being a drastically high payrate offsets the current initial low pay and slower upgrade times at AS. Legacy carriers have options for widebody FO or narrowbody CA. Alaska doesn’t. People WILL leave to pursue that unless you offer drastically higher money for this timeframe.
Lastly, the big 3 at least offer some older pilots and retirements of triple digits for the next decade plus. 500-900 per year. Alaska retirements are single digits and EXTREMELY slow for the next decade plus. Why would a newhire stay here, when his relative seniority at year 12 will be FAR worse at Alaska than any of the big 3?