Originally Posted by
NarrowWidebody
It’s also the lack of profit sharing
Not sure how new you are, but we DO have language for profit sharing, and you can't blame the lack of profits for it NOT paying out. If you're choosing your career based on what CBA has profit sharing, and also planning on that income, you have a lot to learn.
the CBA being years behind other airlines
You clearly don't understand pattern bargaining. Yes, our CBA needs work, but several LOA's in the past couple years have brought our pay way up from where we were.
essentially 0 pay in training.
New hire training pay is BS, dont get me wrong, but its 5 weeks of your life as a new hire. It needs to be fixed, but if one truly wants to be here, then they'll make the sacrifice.
a predatory reserve assignment desk and no insight of hiring again.
How is the reserve assignment desk predatory? Our reserves rules are better than some, and worse than some, but hardly predatory. If you think you're beug unfailrly assigned, I urge to to become familiar with section 25.R. Also management has said several times that they project resuming hiring at the end of 2025, early 2026.
Why would anybody join if growth and hiring would be so slow they would be on the chopping block for years if anything else went wrong. If the opportunity presented it self why wouldn’t any reasonable person not go to a company with better benefits, pay, profit sharing, a fair contract non rev rules, that’s actively hiring and growing.
Theres a place for everyone. I've been here 9 years, live in the base I grew up in, and bid short call in the left seat, and flew 180 hours last year. To me, thats the dream job. I ask myself the same question you just did about guys who commit a career to commuting while there's other airlines with a base in their home city.
Your arguments are flawed, and it's clear you don't understand the cyclical nature of this industry.