How charter is good for FLOPS
Here is how charter going up will equate to more money in my pocket. When management realizes it costs more for charter than to pay FLOPS pilots equivalent to their peers, the company will stop bleeding red. Management has a whole lot more to lose then the pilots do. We are not the ones making $500,000 a year like some senior management (which isn't that senior since most of us have been at FLOPS longer than them.) I, and most pilots at FLOPS can leave one crappy job for another, but why? We built this company and I am not going to let our current management run me off. Management will have a more difficult time finding an equivalent job than the pilots. With all that said, Management will do whatever it takes to save their jobs including paying its' pilots industry standard wages and benefits. Let the charter cost go though the roof. I am sure there are many charter companies that appreciate our business. Let us not forget that shortly after last holiday season Net Jets signed a TA. That didn't happen because all their pilots were team players and did favors for the company. Didn't I hear somewhere that Net Jets is showing a profit now even after the new raises and signing bonuses that the pilots received? I think that there is a direct connection between last holiday season with hundreds of disserviced owners and now showing a profit at Net Jets. I like FLOPS so much I think they deserve the same treatment.
