I would be surprised if anyone hired past 4 years would be fine to fly a lower paying jet. Won’t happen. Nobody joined swa to do regional flying at lower pay. If the difference is small such as for a DL guy on A220 vs 737 then would be ok. Otherwise no. It would not be fair to wish that on our junior colleagues. We all came to one of the big 4 for a benchmark in terms of pay. A 175 is not the benchmark we joined swa for. Anyway, all speculation for now without any management comments. The only thing said last year by Bob was about a long range airplane for intl destinations that is being considered.
A Smaller fleet means less open time for us on 737, less money to be made. According to the latest Swapa podcast the talk is more focused on a WB, i hope they are right.
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RJSAviator76
Precisely... I don't know why we're all hung up on pay scale of a smaller plane, but if it's something much smaller like 175... so what? So this plane goes junior then... I'm sure every Delta or United pilot would love to be on a Dreamliner/A350 pay scale, but unfortunately, some are flying "the best jet ever made" (717 according to some Trannies, for all the new guys here), others are flying B737 or A320's and they're all on different scales are they not? I'd much rather have our junior pilots fly the lower paying airplane and have seniority dictate who flies what than outsource the flying and potentially putting their livelihoods at risk.