Originally Posted by Cujo665

We’ve got around 5-8 more years left on this wave of the pilot shortage.

we need to take a page from the legacy side and make our contracts and compensation almost identical.
there needs to be NO cost advantage between brand X pilots and Brand Y pilots or the whipsaw race to the bottom will start again.

As long as one pilot group is cheaper than the next the mainline will threaten to move the flying unless the company reduces its costs. Management then threatens a loss of flying - and jobs - unless you take concessions. Then the cycle repeats.

then they invent catchy sounding terms like “industry average”…. which sounds fair on the surface but in reality guarantees continued concessions. Once one group takes a cut, the new industry average is lower, and therefore the next industry average requires concessions as well.

it’s a vicious cycle of management using employees wages and benefits for increased shareholder profits. Last time it took 35-40 years but that’s exactly how we ended up with the pilot shortage in the first place.

we need our executive boards and MEC’s to start working together. Our contracts should be almost identical to eliminate any cost advantage. It should be like the steel workers union. Doesn’t matter which company is paying, the rates and benefits are the same.

just food for thought because the day is coming, and it’s at most only 8 years away.