Any SOLID info on Virgin payscales

[psycho]

No agendas please. Any info on Virgin firsthand is appreciated.

 

[johnnyb]

$95 for Captain $44 F/O 70 hour min pay. No FAA or DOT approval yet so you'll be sitting on min until ??????

 

[RedTailSwinger]

$95 for Captain $44 F/O 70 hour min pay. No FAA or DOT approval yet so you'll be sitting on min until ??????

I guess thats a lot better than U.S. Airways ($25 for Captain and F/O first year) on the A320. Or $38 if you count the America West payscale. I have always hated how legacy airlines make the first year so insulting.

 

[B727Driver]

Used to be that the legacy airlines would pay poverty wages while they trained you and on probation. Today, most applicants are very well trained and bring tons of experience to the first day of class. Dumping the first year poverty payscale, it is up to those senior to you. You are 100% correct, it is an insult (not too many first yr Capts. running around at legacy carriers).

 

[skiandsurf]

Used to be that the legacy airlines would pay poverty wages while they trained you and on probation. Today, most applicants are very well trained and bring tons of experience to the first day of class. Dumping the first year poverty payscale, it is up to those senior to you. You are 100% correct, it is an insult (not too many first yr Capts. running around at legacy carriers).

Most of us can get by for a year on poverty wages when they are hanging a $250,000 carrot out in front of us. But now that carrot has doesnt look that good at $150,000.

Pay me little now, but the reward better be big in a few years.

 

[sstearns2]

There's been a Virgin America airbus in SFO for a couple weeks now parked at the FBO on the north side.

Scott

 

[GogglesPisano]

Used to be that the legacy airlines would pay poverty wages while they trained you and on probation. Today, most applicants are very well trained and bring tons of experience to the first day of class. Dumping the first year poverty payscale, it is up to those senior to you. You are 100% correct, it is an insult (not too many first yr Capts. running around at legacy carriers).

Negotiating committees are staffed by senior guys who "went through it and paid their dues ... yadda, yadda, yadda." No one gives a ********************e about newbies.

Sad but true.

 

[B727Driver]

Goggles.....I agree with you, newhire pay doesn't need to be as low as it is at some carriers. Hard to ask for unity when a newbie is paid like a third class citizen. I believe you pay your dues far earlier in your career.

 

[GogglesPisano]

Goggles.....I agree with you, newhire pay doesn't need to be as low as it is at some carriers. Hard to ask for unity when a newbie is paid like a third class citizen. I believe you pay your dues far earlier in your career.

Agreed. Dues are paid tenfold by the time you're competitive at a legacy.

 

[Ty Webb]

I don't think any dues have been paid until you run up and kick a V.P. in the shins . . . . or the nuts. . . . . literally or metaphorically.





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