How will LCCs respond?
06-16-2022, 07:28 PM
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How will LCCs respond?
Hopefully other regionals outside of AA WO start offering similar pay / incentives to stay.
So that leaves the question how will LCC carriers respond? Either they can update their contracts substantially and the regional exodus will continue or they can start general hiring of Commercial Multi pilots outside of the select few flight schools that have that opportunity now. Heard stories LCC interview groups have people still on IOE at their regional so really how far away are we from that anyway?
If a year 2 FO at a regional is making CA pay at $146, that is about year 4-6 FO pay at an LCC roughly.
So that leaves the question how will LCC carriers respond? Either they can update their contracts substantially and the regional exodus will continue or they can start general hiring of Commercial Multi pilots outside of the select few flight schools that have that opportunity now. Heard stories LCC interview groups have people still on IOE at their regional so really how far away are we from that anyway?
If a year 2 FO at a regional is making CA pay at $146, that is about year 4-6 FO pay at an LCC roughly.
06-16-2022, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by planejoe
Hopefully other regionals outside of AA WO start offering similar pay / incentives to stay.
So that leaves the question how will LCC carriers respond?
So that leaves the question how will LCC carriers respond?
06-16-2022, 09:48 PM
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The big problem - at least for F9, NK, and B6, is that they don’t know what the acquisition holds for them. NK management knows that NK as an independent entity is going away. The B6 hostile takeover threat means their sweetheart deals with F9 might not - in fact probably won’t - happen. So they are busy buffing and polishing their own resumes and have zero interest in continuing to manage the airline and in particular not in negotiating a CBA that will quite likely be overtaken by a JCBA (although just who is an issue) anyway.
Until that decision gets made, I think NK is just going to flounder with high attrition. One way or another, F9 and B6 can at least adjust their CBAs to compensate for the higher regional pay scales. NK I’m not sure can.
Until that decision gets made, I think NK is just going to flounder with high attrition. One way or another, F9 and B6 can at least adjust their CBAs to compensate for the higher regional pay scales. NK I’m not sure can.
06-16-2022, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by planejoe
Hopefully other regionals outside of AA WO start offering similar pay / incentives to stay.
So that leaves the question how will LCC carriers respond? Either they can update their contracts substantially and the regional exodus will continue or they can start general hiring of Commercial Multi pilots outside of the select few flight schools that have that opportunity now. Heard stories LCC interview groups have people still on IOE at their regional so really how far away are we from that anyway?
If a year 2 FO at a regional is making CA pay at $146, that is about year 4-6 FO pay at an LCC roughly.
So that leaves the question how will LCC carriers respond? Either they can update their contracts substantially and the regional exodus will continue or they can start general hiring of Commercial Multi pilots outside of the select few flight schools that have that opportunity now. Heard stories LCC interview groups have people still on IOE at their regional so really how far away are we from that anyway?
If a year 2 FO at a regional is making CA pay at $146, that is about year 4-6 FO pay at an LCC roughly.
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06-17-2022, 04:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Macchi30
Frontier, Spirit, Avelo, Breeze, and Sun Country are already hiring 1500 hour CFIs straight out of ATP Flight School.
https://atpflightschool.com/airlines/
https://atpflightschool.com/airlines/
It was mentioned on the NK board that 1/3 of their hires were from AA WOs. So if other regionals follow suit the hiring at LCCs will slow immensely and people leaving for the exit door for legacies surely won't stop either.
06-17-2022, 04:29 AM
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Originally Posted by dera
You will still make more at LCCs than WO regionals. Only the minority who benefit (LCAs/lifers) will make more, others just can't do math.
06-17-2022, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by dera
You will still make more at LCCs than WO regionals. Only the minority who benefit (LCAs/lifers) will make more, others just can't do math.
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