Virgin America getting closer

[VeeOne]

I believe the management team at Virgin America was bragging about providing the same product as Southwest for only 2/3rds the cost. Where do you think the savings will come from??? It sure won't be the savings on their snacks. Geez, I'm just a CRJ F/O and I'm not interested in that.

By the way, where is the payscale for Virgin Blue- I couldn't find one. I've heard that the wages down in Australia are horendously low. Just curious and looking for clarification.

 

[coogebeachhotel]

I believe the management team at Virgin America was bragging about providing the same product as Southwest for only 2/3rds the cost. Where do you think the savings will come from??? It sure won't be the savings on their snacks. Geez, I'm just a CRJ F/O and I'm not interested in that.

By the way, where is the payscale for Virgin Blue- I couldn't find one. I've heard that the wages down in Australia are horendously low. Just curious and looking for clarification.

Not true. They are paid pretty well.

 

[Dizel8]

Virgin Blue payscale link:

http://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com/factfile.php?id=8cgsv4087w4zh7zen5etx48hp416w51u759qyzptgefma5pnyu4

 

[lookin4better]

is it wrong to say there will be thousands of spikey haired SJSers lining up to fly there ?

 

[Ex737Driver]

Wow, real impressive top out pay. $129,000.00 for CA's and $74,000.00 for FO's. Pathetic. Sad to see the race to 7-11 wages continues "down under" too.

 

[AA717driver]

Wow, real impressive top out pay. $129,000.00 for CA's and $74,000.00 for FO's. Pathetic. Sad to see the race to 7-11 wages continues "down under" too.

What's NWA A320 CA pay these days? TC

P.S.--Yes, I know the answer, that's why I asked the question...

 

[Green]

Wow, real impressive top out pay. $129,000.00 for CA's and $74,000.00 for FO's. Pathetic. Sad to see the race to 7-11 wages continues "down under" too.

Yeah it's sad to see people on this very thread pointing to those wages and saying they are good. Not even decent in my opinion. Virgin Blue DID help lower wages in Austrailia. Before Branson came in and low-balled the market FO's at Quantas made as much as captains at VB make. Pathetic...

If Virgin America ever gets off the ground I hope every Alpa pilot refuses to allow those guys to jumpseat. Untill we put our foot down the downward spiral will continue. After Virgin America there will be more if it's succesful.

 

[jetdawg]

now the reason to not allow VA pilots not to ride the jumpseat is (JUST SO I AM NOT CONFUSED) is because the pilots will be the one making the decision about how much they are being paid. That idea has to be one of the best I have heard in a long time.

now if we could just boycott the pilot who got sick on those peanuts i love so much and someone took them of my plane and now I only have pretzels, nothing gets my goat more than looking in a galley and seeing a bag of pretzels.

Next idiotic I mean brilliant solution.

 

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now the reason to not allow VA pilots not to ride the jumpseat is (JUST SO I AM NOT CONFUSED) is because the pilots will be the one making the decision about how much they are being paid. That idea has to be one of the best I have heard in a long time.

now if we could just boycott the pilot who got sick on those peanuts i love so much and someone took them of my plane and now I only have pretzels, nothing gets my goat more than looking in a galley and seeing a bag of pretzels.

Next idiotic I mean brilliant solution.

Pilots DO decide how much they get paid. Under a collective bargaining agreement, they ratify the contract; and in a right to work/non union environment, they accept the job and its corresponding pay.

Short of being shanghied, pilots do decide how much they get paid.

It is a fact that the collective dictates the standard. That's one reason I find it so hard to understand why pilots are so resistant to being unionized. Your wages will be determined by what others are willing to accept, so why not band together in an attempt to get the other guys to stay off the bottom?

 

[starchkr]

I'm with ya , I also do not know why we should not let them j/s. We all know that if we need to get somewhere and they are the only carrier with an open seat that day we will get on them...however, if you purposely don't take the flight and decide to spend the extra night (and extra money) at a place you are trying to get out of then sure, don't take them, but if you EVER get on one of their planes to j/s home or to work because it is the only seat then you have absolutely not right to deny them a seat on your bird.