Eagle757shark
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- Jul 31, 2006
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I'm going to raise the BS flag on your remarks! It gets so old that guys get on here and say they wouldn't work for this and that! Four years ago when Continental was hiring strong their starting pay was around $27,000 dollars a year and no health issurance for the first six months. The line was out the door of guys trying to get onboard. When Pinnacle was hiring off the street Captains, guys were lined up out the door trying to get on there. There have been many many more. I love the attitude that we have in this selfish industry for everyone else to take it for the team. There will always be start ups, and there will always be pilots looking for their opportunity. Like it or not, it is how a free economy works. I guess another way to say it is, you took that low paying starting job and rose up and now someone else has low balled you. Let me give a little history. First it was the pay for training, then the wholly owned were outbid by the independent companies that could do it for less. It just keeps spiraling down. Outsourcing is a way of life that will remain in the airline industry. The door has been opened and will never be shut!Nothing bad to say about Allegiant or it employees, and it obviously (for the time being) must have a sound business plan, but the payrates there are shameful. At this juncture, I would leave aviation, or sit tight working at my mediocre regional job before taking that kind of pay for a 150-seat jet. But with that kind of pay, does the contract have facets contributing to great QOL?