Just as a refresher this was Oct 2015. We aren't even close and it has changed how many times due to self induced "staffing challenges?"

 

I think that the 900 deliveries are on time. I had heard that Bombardier was getting ****y about us delaying delivery..

https://www.planespotters.net/airline/PSA-Airlines

this page indicates we have taken delivery of all the 900s we should have in March, so with that said, maybe that graphic is correct, except for maybe the 700s...

 

Just another example of how AAG values its employees. 1/2 or 1/3 of the industry, and we should be happy about it.

 

Who's going to complain about free money? They didn't have to give anything at all. Sure it's lower than DAL and UAL but they're not giving profit sharing to their regional feed either.

 

I humbly stand corrected. Thank you.

 

The problem is the way AAG treats their employees. Yes "free" money is good but salary and benefit parity with the rest of the industry is better.

PSA has been talking up the fleet plan as a great reason to come here, but now that pay has increased across the industry we are unable to attract the pilots needed to make that plan happen. What is truly upsetting is the attitude of management that we are not worth equal pay to everyone else and therefore our projected career advancement with "1000 new hires" will not happen either, even though AAG is making record profits and has no problem paying Doug & Dion huge salaries and bonuses because its "what the other ceos get too." That hippocracy is infuriating.
I believe they simply announced the profit sharing to get a good PR bump in the news to counter all the bad publicity they got recently about employee treatment. But of course they wouldn't match what the other companies give their employees, because again AAG does not respect their workers.
I hope they don't expect the $250 FO or $600 CA profit sharing checks will fix the staffing problems.

 

If AAG really wanted to keep the growth plan going by matching the highest paid regional (9E) it would cost about $20,000 extra per pilot, about 3,700 pilots between the WOs thats $74M.
Sounds like a lot, however AAG made $7,600,000,000 profit last year alone. That means to bring us all upto par with the only other wholly owned regional who is also top of the industry it would cost less than 1% of profits. But AAG doesn't feel we are worth 1%.

 

That's gross sales, not profit. You need to subtract cogs and expenses to get the true net profit.

 

Not correct.

 

you're right