Pilots at SWA and UAL get 16% 401k match PLUS 10% profit sharing. 2nd year FOs make $150K min. 7 year upgrade, CAs make $250K. Now THATs a career.
Heck, Spirit upgrades at year 3 with min pay being 230K.
Maybe companies buying growth? I.e. offering big $$$ incentives to bring new people on board or steal business from competitors, thereby shrinking profitability? Happens often with the discount major airlines (southwest, JetBlue, frontier, spirit, Allegient). Maybe also big training costs as...
Correct me if wrong, but cannot the same 20 years be “thrown away” by a pink slip because someone doesn’t like you or the way you act, smell, etc without some sort of protection?
Selfish in that when $$$ gets thrown someone’s way and they take it knowing they are stepping over someone with greater seniority. Like it or not, seniority seems to be the only workable solution for a large group of pilots. Seems to work very well at the airlines. There have been cases where...
believe he was talking about bp pay during a contract negotiation and not sli. could be wrong tho. fwiw, bombardier stock was 72 cents last week so not so sure how healthy they really were all along. can't imagine recent gstream line jumpers not immediately being put back in place once list...
Actually it is 23 months. Agreed about senior fos flying into, however, it appears a few were just given the chance to bump their pay from 90/hour to 200/hour, even if on reserve.
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