Speaking of jaded, he doesn't give me a good feeling when it comes to a decision on LGA.:mad:[/QUOTE]
I agree I'm starting to get the JAL jitters---it does not look good for us!

We 2008 hires on the ER had several issues with him. It was over 2 months between domestic IOE and TOE and he would not tell us anything!!! What I didn't know was that you could go to the Chief Pilot and they would buy you some trips domestically. I didn't know that until after TOE.

Do you think the ER will go junior again due to the schedules going down the crapper?

Mine was just north of $800. I feel your pain. Thank god my wife supports my hobby.

Come on - while I agree it's kind of a pain are you telling me you can fly commercial aircraft and can't budget based on this? It's only two weeks.

I have heard this directly from several N SLI's. They are reluctant to speak up in fear of their positions, and those getting the perks won't jeopardize them. I have brought this up to a few MEC folks and the answer has ranged from "bring me proof and we'll pursue it" (but not enough interest to pursue it on their own) to "well if they couldn't keep instructors it might hurt the company".

As Super knows, at fNW you were paid half your minimum monthly guarantee on the 27th (or earlier) and the balance (big check) on the 13th (or earlier).

It's not about not being able to budget. We've all adapted but it's still a slap in the face to get a check this small. Might as well pay us once a month :cool:

do you really think the current pay process is better than have the pay split more evenly? The current pay system is stupid and I've never heard of a company having a pay method like this.

This just enables the company to sit on our money longer while we miss out on 2 weeks of investing return. Think about how much money they make on holding that money longer. 401k compound interest over the course of a career is also effected. More money on the first check means more money being invested sooner by us individually. This isn't all about "budgeting". They're sitting on our money as long as they can.

Yes which made the checks more evened out. Now I get 1314 gross on the first check of the month. So after taxes and deductions the check is barely 800 bucks :rolleyes:

fNW we had some sort of seniority list pilot in both seats for full flight sims.

It might be a seat support instructor (CA or FO), it might be a guy on Reserve called in to "fly" a seat support trip, or it might be student FO and FO or CA and CA if they are going through initial together.

Having said that, we still had our fair share of "you'll get that on IOE" from sim instructors and "You'll get that on the line" from IOE instructors. Some of that was driven by the endless training footprint modifications on each fleet. Either they wanted to shrink the footprint, or cram more stuff into the footprint. Either way you were hurting the quality of training.

I'll take a SLI pilot with line experience over a guy that hasnt flown the line if given a choice. Yes, its a generalization and yes there is always that 2 percent factor, but usually you know who those 2 percent are...

DL is the only company I've seen to do it like this. Is it something I get my blood pressure up for? No.

There are bigger fights to fight, but if the opportunity arises, I would prefer to have 35 hours on check 1 and then the rest on check 2.