Allegiant Air
04-06-2016 | 01:04 PM
#2231
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 2,583
Likes: 15
From: Hoping for any position
04-06-2016 | 01:08 PM
#2232
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 2,583
Likes: 15
From: Hoping for any position
You also have the "I'm home every night crowd" that feel what is acceptable is very different than what is deserved....because their home every night. The captains that have been here a couple of years that are making a comfortable living make me nervous in what they find acceptable.
04-06-2016 | 01:13 PM
#2233
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 390
Likes: 0
You leave for a place that pays you what you deserve. Easier said than done but the time draws near where G4 will fight even to get the scraps. Right now management can carve out a niche between regional and major pay. Throw in 'home-every-night" syndrome, a 2-year upgrade and you have plenty of pilots lined up for interviews. That will end soon as upgrades slow, overnights grow, and the fight over dwindling talent intensifies. Word from WN is they're dropping the PIC minimums. Dropping the type requirement wasn't netting the numbers they needed. The writing is on the wall. Hang tough, phones will be ringing.
04-06-2016 | 02:25 PM
#2236
Line Holder
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 928
Likes: 2
Also, during this time the pilot turnover re-populates the bottom half of the seniority list with 'cautiously optimistic' pilots who think (and post here) about managements chance of stance and hope for the future and how it's better than their old regional.
Read this as - pilots who devalue your "NO" vote "weapon" in and through their willingness to give the process time. Are they likely to vote for a payscale that tops at $175/$125 and get 'em next time on the myriad of other items that make a pilot career valuable? I think you know the answer.
Read this as - pilots who devalue your "NO" vote "weapon" in and through their willingness to give the process time. Are they likely to vote for a payscale that tops at $175/$125 and get 'em next time on the myriad of other items that make a pilot career valuable? I think you know the answer.
Regarding the lead-up to a contract, the new hires will be a problem for management; not for the pilot group.
04-06-2016 | 02:39 PM
#2237
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 167
Likes: 0
From: C206
You leave for a place that pays you what you deserve. Easier said than done but the time draws near where G4 will fight even to get the scraps. Right now management can carve out a niche between regional and major pay. Throw in 'home-every-night" syndrome, a 2-year upgrade and you have plenty of pilots lined up for interviews. That will end soon as upgrades slow, overnights grow, and the fight over dwindling talent intensifies. Word from WN is they're dropping the PIC minimums. Dropping the type requirement wasn't netting the numbers they needed. The writing is on the wall. Hang tough, phones will be ringing.
04-06-2016 | 03:22 PM
#2238
Line Holder
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,072
Likes: 17
From: CA
They're having no problem attracting quality applicants I can name you half a dozen Captains with outstanding quals who've been trying to get on with WN for some time & no luck.
04-06-2016 | 03:28 PM
#2239
Swimmin' in da pool
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 449
Likes: 0
Heard the same thing yesterday from a guy in training over there. They are telling SW new hires in class that the PIC requirements are being lowered because of the new realities of the marketplace. Majors are sucking up a lot of talent and the supply trend is worsening. A lot of quality right seaters in the military and commercial sector that are short of 1000 but have a ton of experience.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
