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I won’t be concerned until the hiring market picks up substantially more. What really runs attrition at Breeze is other LCCs hiring away the regional pilots, of which none of them are. Same with Southwest. There’s just too much talent in the pool looking for jobs. In fact, just a couple of months ago, DN also said he wished there was a bit more attrition. Last year there was almost zero. Why? Recycling year 3-4 pay pilots with year 1-2 is cheaper. They account for that reduction and somewhat count on it. If the top 25% stay forever and the rest of the 75% constantly churns at year 1-2 pay, imagine how much savings that is compared to 100% of the pilot group being on year 12 pay!
Breeze isn’t going out of business. It will either continue like JetBlue for years until its unique nature is expired, competition catches up, etc, or it will be acquired by JetBlue at some later date. It won’t just cease to exist.
dude stop thinking you’re still at Mesa, you’re never going to get a contract. Still talking about them wanting to average us on year 2 to 3 pay. If you’ve looked at our pay rate as most are on A220 pay, the difference between year 2/3 and 11 pay is only like 10 to 20 bucks an hour so at this point it doesn’t matter what year you’re on for them. They desperately need pilots because we have airplanes coming, They can’t afford to have attrition that’s why they upped the pay. And they know no matter what happens some will leave anyways just to experience legacy flying. Unfortunately the only real way to make progress at this point is if pilots actually leave while A220s are still on their way