I haven't heard. But my understanding is we are taking over all of the UPS feeder runs from ABQ. So wherever they are now, those will likely stay the same.

Line Pilot Raise
 

Dear Ameriflight
I regret to inform you that your $1.80 raise will not stop the slow and steady pilgrimage out of this company. I fear Ameriflight has missed the mark entirely for line pilots. Ameriflight should not be concerned about keeping a pilot here for 12 years. Ameriflight should be concerned about how to keep a pilot between 6 months to 3 years after hire date. (Because let’s be honest, nobody should be here flying the line after 4 years.)

Ameriflight, I would recommend the following. Keep the $1.80 an hour raise the way it is and absorb the turbine retention into our hourly pay. The current 2nd year turbine bonus for a metro is $4,450. At 2,080 hours (the annual hours worked in a full-time job) That equates to $2.14 cents an hour. If you combine the current raise with the turbine retention bonus it would equal a $3.94 cents an hour bump.

THAT IS A RAISE!!!! Why would you do this? Because I am going to lose ½ of my turbine retention bonus to taxes. If you fold the turbine retention bonus into our hourly pay it would equate to more money coming home with me. This ridiculous $1.80 raise barely covers the hike in insurance premiums I was hit with in February. The turbine retention bonus is bullsh*t. Nobody stays here for that, it only prolongs a few months in which an employee might stretch out his resignation.

Ameriflight, Thank for the experience and the good times. I will bid you farewell when my contract is up and I find another job that will pay me what my skill is worth.

No hard feelings

Raise
 

The raise for me was just shy of 25%. Everyone can never be happy, but realistically this is substantially more than I expected. Whatisright, while I see your frustration, I don't imagine that even a dropzone would hire a 1200 hour pilot to fly a king air 90, without the "valuable skills" acquired here at AMF.

Complaining that we are underpaid is fine, but if your skill set is 1200 hours tt and 50 ME when hired, good luck convincing your buddies at endeavor that you're so poorly treated.

I'm with you man.
AMF has always been a cheap place to work for, and what's sad is that they are so good at brainwashing people that they will always find two people for everyone of us that leaves.
Go for another job and you'll see the difference, it will only be better!

You do realize you get that money back when you do your taxes, unless it was enough to push you into the next higher tax bracket, in which case you have the problem of making more money...:confused:

Complaining about a raise? :cool:

It may not be what what you wanted but it is more than you had before.

Oh yes,
Going from nothing to nothing plus 1.80$ is a big change and you shouldn't complain about it :-)

I have a friend on BE99 he said it came out to $6,000 more annually. That is a pretty substantial raise when you're only making $27,000-$28,000 to begin with.

Would you rather have that extra coin or not?

6000$ more a year it's 500$ more a month, after taxes is about 300$ a month, 150$ every paycheck.
Oh yes big difference, come on, stop complaining!!!

So what you're saying is you would rather not have that $150/paycheck? Yeah, you're real smart. :rolleyes:

So you're at a regional on year one pay, what's the raise for second year? $6K to $10K, maybe? Then why would you even bother with second year pay, it makes no difference. That's what you're saying. Or is it different because you're flying 121 in a jet? That's how you justify everything. :cool:

I guess a raise for the AMF pilots is a step in the wrong direction. :confused: