AA717driver
A simpler time...
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You would have to expend tremendous amounts of negotiating capital to achieve first year rates that you are looking for. Companies are extremely resistant to paying first year pilots very much because they feel that a pilot hasn't proven to be a wise investment until after he completes his probationary year. Until then, he's still basically an at-will employee. Airlines spend tens of thousands of dollars on each new-hire pilot, so paying them $70k their first year also isn't exactly something that management would accept easily. You would have to give up a lot in other areas to achieve that. Most pilots don't feel that it's a wise investment of negotiating capital to achieve such high rates of pay for probationary members. I think you'd have a very hard time convincing your fellow pilots that it's worth what they'd have to give up in other areas.
That's why ALPA is done as a union. This "group-think" that prevents ANY new idea from 'rocking the boat' is what got this "profession" where it is.
The AAI guys really need your union experience on the negotiating committee.
Oops, sorry, I mean AAI MANAGEMENT needs you on the nego. comm. TC