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Increased flow is something that helps everyone, though the more senior one is, the greater the short term impact. Junior manning or street Captain hiring was going to occur, and while I agree something of this nature should have been put forth for a vote by the pilot group, the angst directed towards the senior portion of the pilot group who gained a larger benefit than the junior portion is not warranted, given the huge financial gains only PSA First Officers have made over the last couple of years.
Year one FO was about $24k/year. Year two was about $32k. Now First Officers are earning $50k-$60k in their first year or two, while Captains are still earning sub-par wages.
You can argue that Captain pay and reserve rules would have improved without this agreement, but I don't believe that's a valid argument. The company simply would have began junior manning from the bottom of the list, and hiring street Captains as they have in the past.
Welcome to the airline industry. Welcome to the regionals.
Is your logic that since the FO's got bonuses in recent past years, and captains didn't, they should be okay with having to pay for crash pads, or hotels and live out of the domicile sometimes two legs that their seniority was holding? I don't think most FO's are mad at the senior pilot group as a whole anyway, just the agreement to be on reserve with crappy reserve rules (with promised and never delivered improvements) and have to pay the costs of the displacement themselves. Sure, the captain group didn't get anything for a lot of years, but those that came behind weren't responsible for that. And by the way, the amount of the bonus for most of us will never reach much above $23000, we are being upgraded before receiving more than one of those.Originally Posted by irrelevant
As frustrating as this is for those who are being displaced out of domicile into the left seat, I suspect most of those who are complaining were those who benefited from the $20k-$35k in combined bonuses and longevity step increases, while the top half of the seniority list was ignored. Increased flow is something that helps everyone, though the more senior one is, the greater the short term impact. Junior manning or street Captain hiring was going to occur, and while I agree something of this nature should have been put forth for a vote by the pilot group, the angst directed towards the senior portion of the pilot group who gained a larger benefit than the junior portion is not warranted, given the huge financial gains only PSA First Officers have made over the last couple of years.
Year one FO was about $24k/year. Year two was about $32k. Now First Officers are earning $50k-$60k in their first year or two, while Captains are still earning sub-par wages.
You can argue that Captain pay and reserve rules would have improved without this agreement, but I don't believe that's a valid argument. The company simply would have began junior manning from the bottom of the list, and hiring street Captains as they have in the past.
Welcome to the airline industry. Welcome to the regionals.