Originally Posted by
newarkblows
$1150 a MONTH take home?!?!?!?
The really sad thing is that there are people on these forums that defend (or at least used to) the company. If you are dumb enough or desperate enough to work here how can a union help you??? The company can smell your desperation for a job a mile away. I am guessing contract negotiations are going to go real well with the endless supply of people willing to make 1150 a month. Some of your pilot group doesn't even realize how poorly they are treated and paid in comparison to other regionals FLYING SMALLER EQUIPMENT!
15 more Q's coming this summer... awesome!!!! thats another 75 fo's below the poverty level... you all should be soo excited!
All in the name of a quick upgrade so you can make as much as first officers at other regionals... brilliant.
I think we should give these guys the benefit of the doubt until the new ALPA contract is finished. Several large regionals started much the same as Colgan is now. Putting 2 pilots in one hotel room on overnights, making you pay for training, making poverty level wages... etc
Now many of those companies have industry leady contracts. Give these guys time to get it right and make it right.