Airnet Base closures

[starchkr]

Let's NOT get started on payscales right now...very sore subject as many may know.

We still have no idea of what our "management set" raise will be for this year. I do however feel that the pay scale might go the 40 hour way as you said. But i think that 4 day runs will be paid at 10 hours per day with OT after 40 and 5 day runs paid at 8 hours a day with OT after 40. Other than that...????????????

 

[IP076]

Yeah, I was just wondering if anyone else had heard the same thing I had. It is a touchy subject.

In theory, that could amount to a rather large paycut if you had a 5 day run that never went over 8 hours of duty rig.

I guess we'll wait and see what happens.

 

[jaybird]

i knew it would only be a matter of time before they screwed the fifth night pay. good luck to you guys.

 

[StarChecker]

Yikes...no more floater pay and now no OT for the fifth night???....YIKES. Good luck guys.

Me and Jay are on vacation.

 

[Jmmccutc]

how do you guys think this will affect the airnet SIC program starting up again? will the cutting of flights slow hiring? i'm guessing it will but just wondering...

 

[IP076]

I think one of the main contributing factors in closing these runs is the fact that AirNet does not have the pilots to fly them. I have heard hiring is steady, class of 4 or 6 every two weeks. I've heard nothing official about the SIC program, just rumors on this board.

 

[HAZ-MAT]

A little of what IP076 said about closed bases. The DAL base is a pure Lear base now, contracted the prop runs out to Tele- however you spell it. A prop run out of NEW has been closed, but the other one is being chartered out till they can get a body out of class to fill it. I'm thinking that some of the prop runs that were closed are 1) to get the Be-58's to BHM, and 2) because we might be losing money on those runs.. and if we contract them out and fly a Be-36 or something it makes sense... kinda sucks for those people that were flying those runs... but most of those runs that were closed... those guys recently left for regionals/corporate positions elsewhere.. so nobody was really displaced.