Mgmnt wants paycut at colgan

[bizicmo]

Isn't CommutAir already at the bottom! How can they even take a pay cut?! ...These guys are getting screwed. Just look at their 5 year FO pay progression:
$21, $22, $23, $24, $25

(for perspective, typical regional pay for flying Dash 8's looks something like this: $27, $31, $33, $34, $35...this happens to be pdt's). That's just not right that a 6 year FO at CommutAir will still make less than a Piedmont new-hire on the same equipment! Especially considering Piedmont's pay is crap too!

I know first year pay is crap, but doesn't it usually bump up quite a bit after second year (hence the identifiable distinction between first year pay and the rest of the scale)? I guess CommutAir guys are stuck with first year level wages every year :-/

What an insult to the pilot group. They're a great bunch of guys over there, great personalities and great pilots. Hope it all works out.

It's almost funny but every year you get that dollar raise. Then every year the company contributes less to your medical. It evens out every year.

 

[WSurf]

It's almost funny but every year you get that dollar raise. Then every year the company contributes less to your medical. It evens out every year.

People will go to these companies for a quick upgrade and the ability to punch there ticket to a mainline carrier. We can all sit back and say its crap, but there are tons of people ready to take a job where they can upgrade in a year. Be a captain for maybe 2, then get to a major.

CommutAir, when they had there profit sharing had very respectable pay on the 1900's. Profit sharing checks sometimes were more then actual paychecks. Then the owners decided just like the rest of corporate america to take more and more of the profit.

 

[buscap]

What's really a neat little turd about all this is the mainline pilots have quite a bit of control over their hiring, less than they used to though.

But they refuse to only hire from unionized only carriers which have not participated in the race to the bottom. I know doing so is obviously impossible, because they would not be able to hire anyone from any regional.



Or perhaps they could only hire prop drivers, that would negate the effect of the scope they gave away. We would all be willing to fly props for next to nothing in order to get the qualifications needed to get hired at mainline.

And further, the prop regionals would be able to do the flying soooo cheap since the pilots would work for nothing and never top out their payscales, since they would all get hired at mainline!!

Leave the RJ's to the regional lifers. And the RJ's would eventually be priced out of the market.

:beer:

Pure genius!! I'm sure the mainline guys have the nads to implement this on a national scale, as opposed to taking a payraise.....??
:erm:

 

[no1pilot2000]

Based on some of the pay rates listed here, how much doesn a 1st and 5th year first officer make at a place like Commutair and Piedmont?