Reminds me of the "buzzed driving PSA" the doctor is working on s crash victim the boyfriend says " but I was just buzzed" "doc says just buzzed oh ok everything will be fine"
No such thing as a entry level crash except in the sim.

The term Entry level and regional always **** me off, ewr to Oma or msy, nah just ain't regional.

 

Thank you sir, for validating my other thread. "Stop using".

It's a slur directed towards the "c-scale" pilots. Nothing more.

 

Aren't you at PSA?

 

this industry is a complete joke. Plain. And. Simple.

the pilot group as a whole disappoints me that we can't come together to demand change. Too many people view this job as a hobby which is pathetic

 

Like I said earlier....A nationwide strike or just plain and simple walk off the job collectively for a day and bring these greedy corporations to their knees...It CAN be done... no one seems to care about illegals entering this country on a daily basis so why be scared to walk off the job collectively for a day? The only people who can fix this problem are the pilots- no one else is going to fix it....

I guarantee that there will be positive results if the Airline Industry is shut down completely for a day or two by the Pilots walking off the job collectively...Guaranteed success...Mark my words..We have to become DICTATORS and take full control and show the corporations/Airlines who is REALLY in charge...

 

1. starting wage is about 23K, there is a 5k bonus and the company will pay for all training to receive the ATP.

2. Gross pay is very dependent on how much one flies. Half the pilots commute, so they usually fly less. For an FO on average, I'd assume 25K the first yr, 30K the second, and 35 the third. Of course, overtime pay can increase this significantly.

Comparing to a national median is kind of pointless, because you've got the unskilled in that group, and millionaires. In my mind, it would be better to compare the wage to someone who operates power-plants, large complicated heavy machinery, and to those who do skilled work requiring extensive training and knowledge.

I never said there was a shortage of airline pilots, what I said was the regionals are screaming shortage. This is because they are finding it impossible to recruit new-hires w/o incentives. Regionals are offering bonuses, flow-throughs, and financial assistance to certain CFI's who agree to a work contract. Why are they doing this, generosity? No, they are testing the waters incrementally in order to see what bait works. There are mid level seniority regional pilots who see improved hiring opportunities at LCC's and the majors and are holding fast in their current jobs, but many are not being replaced as they leave.

The metric I am using is observation. At my own regional airline, the pilots rejected a concessionary package under job loss threat from both mgmt. and the union. Over 90% voted and of them 83% voted NO on concessions. At Republic a similar situation has occurred. So this indicated to me a large section of regional pilots are not going to tolerate more concessions. At Envoy and Endeavor, concessions were imposed but only after offering a flow-through and/or a hiring bonus. So if the regionals were not having a problem finding pilots, why offer all the incentives?

As far as regional profitability goes, is it growing or decreasing? I have not read any financial analyst's report who really understands the system and the dynamics of the regional business. No one has addressed the effects of a seniority system, the RLA, and discharge of debt through mainline bankruptcy--while retaining billions in profits. Have you read about the effects of the age 65 rule or the ATP requirement and lack of bank loans for a job that costs 100K in training for a reward in the 30-40K range if you don't upgrade? (not including the 23K first yr pay, pre-bonus). Have you read that Delta bailed out Pinnacle to create Endeavor and used that to reset it's contracts with all the other regionals--driving their profits down? Labor in the past was the only "flexibility" in the system, and it is becoming markedly less so.

Also, are these "record profits" being reached by playing the stock buyback game, like so many other companies are doing? A very important metric to look at is, what is the free cash flow of these profitable regionals? Is money being shifted around different regionals in a holding company in order to make one appear more profitable than another?

Finally, I have friends throughout this business and ALL the regional people I know are fed up and are not willing to take any more concessions, because we all realize now it's pointless. The savings just go into mgmt. pockets w/o improving anything, then a while later, they are back for more. The regional industry is not full of wide eyed naive newbies anymore, everyone has yrs of experience in this sad drama, and knows the score. That is why I think the regional model as it stands now is not only broken but unsustainable. Could it/ will it morph into something else? YES!

 

But I want to go from zero to hero in 3 years. And I'm willing to throw everyone else around me under the bus. Because I'm entitled to a mainline job in 3 years. Not 10. I'll vote yes to anything that will accelerate MY career progression.


As long as this mentality continues we will have CEO's that will exploit it. What we need is real leadership. Not ALPA.

 

That's pretty much what mainline did by giving up their scope and what ALPA does by allowing others getting hired directly into a mainline job before being a member of ALPA and not starting at the true bottom. Just stop allowing FFD, Farming, Permitted and all flying will be mainline but they want to keep throwing regionals under the bus with unequal rules and continue doing their dirty work.

 

Much more likely it winds up in the passenger's pocket thru fare reductions--real fares have trended down since deregulation in '78.

Pilots, by accepting the zero to hero idea, told mgt that a pilot can fly an ILS with pax in mainline colors for 30K per year, now they expect it. Mgt wants the B777 pilot to be paid 30k, not RJ pilots paid 300k.

GF

 

Total agree. It would take someone out in front to organize this. How? Who?