A possible FLOPS solution

[luvu]

First step- send in your card

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[CapnVegetto]

Sounds like FLOPS is becoming a regional airline. Wow......it used to be one of the best companies to work for, didn't it?

 

[ultrarunner]

Didn't the employees at UAL purchase a significant portion of that company through an ESOP?

We're they sucessful in getting a good management team running the company?

I'm behind in my reading, so someone bring me up to speed on how they're doing.

 

[longrangekiller]

Nice idea. Failed at United.

The Flight Options pilots are not united enough to organize. Why would you even have the slightest idea that the pilots would band together to make Flight Options an employee owned company?

Pilots are leaving the company fast and there has not been a new hire class since October. Owners are leaving Flight Options almost as fast as the pilots.

Flight Options is slowly passing into history. That is the reality.

I am leaving late Summer. I believe strongly that your time would be better spent seeking new employment rather that trying to plug all the holes in this sinking ship.

I mean even if the pilot force organizes before 1 July, which is unlikely even now, nothing much will change. I mean things will stay the same are they are now. "The Company and the Pilots remain far apart on many KEY ISSUES." I've read that one before very recently.

 

[Grim Reaper]

Impassioned letters continue to appear on the Flight Options Pilot Web Site. Pilots are leaving en masse. Owners are leaving. [Of course a good number of those owners leaving were unable to obtain another sweetheart (cheap, under performing) service contract and that is just fine.] There is worry that owner disservice will cause the company to close down. All the while, the CEO tells the employees just how proud and please he is with the efforts to take care of the customer. It is a sad situation.



Pilots with double digit seniority numbers plead for the submission of union representation cards hoping for a vote before all the announced policy initiatives are enacted and hoping to save Flight Options from itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, the sad truth is the announced initiatives are a done deal, with the exception of closing the remaining tier three domiciles and reserve schedule.

Crew meals: Done

CLE Domicile Pay: Done

Expense Reporting: Done

SOP Changes: Done

Per Diem: Done

Etc, etc, etc.


A vote at this point is too little too late to prevent current policy changes. A vote in the near future may say some remaining tier three airports and may prevent the implementation of a reserve schedule for now, but that’s about it.

All you can hope to do is prevent future policy changes without due consideration. So, by all means, continue with the effort. As for me, I’m outa here in the near future. The jobs are out there. All ya gotta do is look.

 

[luvu]

how bad can it get

before you think that you shouldn't support unionization because status quo at this point is too late a goal, you should consider how much worse it can get once management decides that it is going to put its mistakes on the backs of pilots.

How would you like Five days on / 2 days off?
How would you like to pay for your own commute out of a $4,000 a year transportation allowance. Anything more than that is on you.
How would you like to pay for your own initial type?
How would you like pay to be reduced across the board to $45,000 for a Captain regardless of seniority and $18,000 for First Officers. It won't matter if you were once a Captain. If you are now a First Officer, you get the pay cut.
Think there still won't be a stack of 10,000 resumes from hungry up and coming pilots with 1,500 hours and an ATP? Guess again. Sure they will constitute a substantial decrease in experience and safety but they are worth every penny in savings and management's a$$ won't be at the bottom of the smoking hole anyway.

Think this can't happen? Think it won't happen before the doors finally close? Whose going to put a stop to it?


If not the pilots, Who?
If not now, When?

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