I haven't been here long enough to comment on that....but....based on the conversations I have with Captains, I know what you mean. It's still not as bad as some regionals, but I don't know how much it will affect our hiring in the future. Has yet to be seen.

Another forum said they had 1 person in their last systems class....

Not sure if that's true or not

And retention bonuses in the works at CZ.... But we're at the best regional, we should be glad that we're being paid at all to work here, right?

How so???:confused:

Why would you care if another pilot makes his pay in experience? You don't know what other people's situations were at the time. As long you get paid what you should be, I wouldn't worry about other pilots' paychecks. If someone goes from Kmart to Target but gets paid for their experience, what's the difference? Exactly what pilots got burned? Everyone else is still chugging along fine. If a fellow pilot needs to come over and make pay for his years of experience which would help support his family, then fine. We're all in this together.

Because that money isn't free. It had to come from somewhere, and it didn't come out of the senior manager bonus budget, or the mini indy car budget...it came out of the pilot compensation budget, at the expense of other more senior pilots.

The policy doesn't even make a lot of sense to me, I think regional managers are confronted with an apparently insurmountable problem with long-term pilot recruiting and are trying to do anything at all just to appear to be doing something. IMO the money would be better spent on ab-initio style training programs...if the regionals pay for flight training, they can obligate the pilots to literally years of indentured service. Wealthy wannabe's might opt out to preserve their career flexibility, but many folks without means would jump on that.

You got that part right at least.

That may be fair, but human nature does not perceive it as fair. Some people argued that b-scale employees who knew the differential pay rates before taking the job should not object later...but they did object, and it was completely foreseeable. :(

...we are all free-market capitalists until....

It's at the expense of shareholders, not more senior pilots. The pilot group chose to leave that money on the table when they voted in the last TA, and thus it was no longer part of the pilot compensation budget.

That money will be used to buy 100 new aircraft....