Originally Posted by
Mason32
You're a Captain? No offense, but that dribble sounded like something a first year FO would say.
You really don't think that if a company had XX dollars to give to the pilot group, they couldn't simply tag it with a qualifier that xx percentage must go to FO pay or the money is not available for anybody.
ANYTHING can be done if people want it to be done.
My example was a little extreme I will give you that. The company could do that, however, regional whip sawing allows management to not provide that capital to the pilot group. Instead raising FO pay would have to come from the shared sacrifice of the higher paid pilots. However, I doubt they would vote for a pay cut to raise the pay of other pilots. That's why I say that an independent party will have to step in to remedy the troubles in the industry. The pilots have no will to make changes, and the company is certainly not going to provide more capital to the pilot group if it can be avoided.