Originally Posted by 402Fanatic

I mentioned it only because a large majority of your driving point has been pay. $40 an hour for the minimum 70 hours a month gets you $33,800 for your first year. The average income of Americans according to the census bureau is $32,000. I personally wouldn't complain about being above the average in only your first year on the job.

If APC numbers are correct you get a pay raise to $53 per hour in your second year? That's a $10,000 or more pay raise. Hardly seems like a bad deal to stick it out for a year. To me the logic seems to not reward newhires with the pot right off the bat. With training costs and such, that first year could be costly if the pilot decides that working for B6 isn't where they want to work. In times like these the odds of someone taking off in their first year are unrealistic. But when business is booming and someone gets hired at B6 but then gets an offer in a year to work at an airline they really want to work for, who gets footed with the training bill? To me this seems like a reasonable insurance policy rather than a case of management irrationally flexing its power. That lost money on the newhire could have gone into your pocket or reinvested in the airline to grow, expand, and create more jobs.

I'm really not trying to step on your toes. I'm just trying to better understand your position and am curious what you think reasonable pay scales for pilots are?

I also would hope that just because past carriers have given the stiff arm to certain workgroups doesn't mean B6 will. Change only happens when it happens and I am just as anxious to see if B6 decides to be different or one and the same.