Once again you were right. Talk from the office is "for us to be able to afford the PIC pay, the SIC pay raise has to be little or nothing." Right from Tricky Ricci's playbook. Have a small percentage of highly paid individuals, and under compensate the "trapped employees" and the low time pilots that just want to build time and move on. Unfortunately, that makes a lot of us expendable.
Of course I'm right.
Here's the thing: add up the total compensation awarded to One Sky pilots over the past year and divide by the number of pilots. What you get is roughly NJA averages if you extrapolate based on some rough guesses across the board. I don't have access to that information but I used very conservative numbers, seat placements etc...
Don't trust me: run the numbers yourself. If you're on the PNC and you have the numbers, definitely do it.
Ricci can afford to pay us industry high salary. It will just mean those precious Red Label thieves won't be able to continue doing that at the expense of others.
I certainly hope the arbritrator understands Ricci likes to talk out of both sides of his ass. Either the program is so successful it is the new model for fractional so a divided list is a moot point or business is bad so he doesn't have the money to pay more.
The truth us in between: there is no huge or sustainable market for Red Label but we have plenty of money to supply a fair increase.
However not for long. If recent experience and owner conversations have proven anything to me, people are starting to notice the degradation of this company and we will start losing owners soon if we don't pivot.
Downside we will furlough if we get too greedy before we can recover the decimation of the last 3 years of union busting b!tch slapping, Upside is NJA will be hiring.
Haven't I said before I don't know a single pilot who hasn't updated their resume lately, including our own union leadership? Ricci is dumber than $hit to risk this going to an arbritrator. He could lose everything in one day if we don't get good enough. The only ones who will stay will be the crotchety old windbags with defibrillator watches or hour farmers.
Owners are watching. They will leave too if they see a pilot exodus. They know we are the canary in the coal mine.
Ricci is risking it all on dumb hatred. Emperors better than him have gambled and lost with similar attitudes. I hope I'm wrong for my sake but geez wouldn't it be sweet justice to be on a cot next to him at the homeless shelter?
