[Breeze] Airways
#491
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Why? The more organizations competing for the limited number of pilot bodies the better for the pilots.
In an era when we have regionals offering $100k hiring bonuses,
https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/...gojet_airlines
pilots have rarely had more leverage.
In an era when we have regionals offering $100k hiring bonuses,
https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/...gojet_airlines
pilots have rarely had more leverage.
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Long term wages will need to be competitive to stem attrition to all of the legacies...
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Delta alone will need thousands of pilots in the next 10 years. If Breeze wants to KEEP its pilots it will need to increase compensation. Delta loves to pick off experienced pilots from competitors like JB, Spirit and Frontier - I know several who have made the jump. Bottom line: nobody should expect a startup to start offering industry leading (or even maybe industry average) wages. Don’t expect it!
Long term wages will need to be competitive to stem attrition to all of the legacies...
Long term wages will need to be competitive to stem attrition to all of the legacies...
Everyone should expect a startup flying mainline aircraft to pay BETTER than RJ wages. Shame on you for trying to make excuses like this should be acceptable. There is a difference between offering even "industry average" wages and paying less than some RJ operators pay.
#495
You have no ideas what stock options or profit sharing or other inducements they are going to be offering, and you know what? If the package isn’t competitive people can and will go elsewhere. Nobody is going to force anyone to work for Breeze and if they don’t offer a competitive package no one will.
If people care to take a risk on a startup knowing - like the initial JetBlue pilots did - that if the operation succeeded they would be paid off handsomely and if it all went Tango Uniform they were pretty much wasting their time, what business is it of yours to tell them different. A couple years ago Frontier had a cr@ppy contract and so did Spirit, but those contracts got improved. Somebody going to work for one of them two or three years ago was taking a risk, but that was their choice.
Legacy or nothing just gives the legacies greater power under the RLA. You seriously think AA will ever be released to strike in your lifetime? I sure doubt it. But releasing Breeze pilots to strike...? Meh, the NMB wouldn’t really care.
More employers give pilots MORE leverage, not less. If you don’t think the recently inked contracts at NK and F9 haven’t given the guys flying at SWA and the legacies more leverage with their management you are wrong.
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