Originally Posted by
CALTEX
1. Get rid of PIC requirement for Mainline job. Replace with 5 year 121 experience. After 5 years, you are more than qualified to sling gear at the majors. This will solve all the problems of racing to the bottom to get that coveted PIC time. How many guys take crappy jobs with low pay, terrible work rules, sadistic management, and etc., just to get PIC? Who would take a job at a bottom feeder if all they need is years and not PIC?
2. Mainline guys stop giving up SCOPE to save pay, jobs or to get a shiny jet. The regional jet should have been mainline flying. Any plane that can leave the "region" should have been mainline. The jobs would have come back, the pay would be better than it is now, and the company is going to get the jet anyway. How many DC-3's are still flying?
3. Be willing to sacrifice. Do not pick up OT when staffing is low, or worse, guys on the street. Do not sell out your junior guys! Yes, you have been there, done that, but that doesn't mean it is someone else's turn to eat the sh.t sandwich. Ten years ago the senior guys sold SCOPE to save their A$$es and now it is the very thing that is killing the profession.
I'm sure you can all add something, but these are the three things that I see need to be addressed.
I really think you haven't thought through your proposal all that much.
As for part 1, the majors hire future CAPTAINS, they don't hire FOs. If you have interviewed with a Major, you would know this. Therefore, they most certainly want to see PIC time and hear about your expreriences as a Pilot In Command.
And as for #2 and #3, you are talking out both sides of your mouth. So which is it? Are we going to stop giving away scope to "protect jobs" or are you going to "protect first officers jobs?" Sometimes, you can't have both.
Maybe your plan needs a little more work.