Originally Posted by
CANAM
If your aircraft says Express, Connection, Link, Eagle, ect., on the side, your company will have to bid on that flying. Capitalism dictates the lowest bidder will get the contract, so your company had better be VERY competitive in today's market economy. So long as another company will underbid your company, the pay will not go up. Sorry.
That's completely false. The company will pay whatever they have to pay to keep their airline running. If the market determines that 30 bucks an hour is the new 1st year pay industry wide, that's what they'll offer. Also, competitive does not have to mean cheap labor, look at the latest round of contract awards along with industry humiliation of Mesa. Also companies don't have to be cost competitive with every single industry bottom feeder just ones that provide the same service, bad deal if you're a t-prop guy.