the following is from asap's web page....
"When NJA pilot salaries are compared to the annual salary survey conducted by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), NJA pilots currently earn an average of 50% base salary of other pilots in the United States who fly similar jet aircraft. Under the contract proposal, NJA pilots would have earned only an average of 55% of what other, less productive pilots earn operating the same equipment for other companies. "
Well, the "less productive pilots" part just highlights the broad-based ignorance of corporate aviation that resides within the NetJets pilot ranks. How many corporate pilots get 1/3 to 1/2 a month in "hard" days off? How many live somewhere where they aren't based, and commute on company time at company expense? The list goes on. Far from being "more productive", the frac scheme requires hiring an additional 2 to 3 pilots per airplane to sufficiently crew it. A company operating their own flight department buys a he!! of a lot more from a pilot even just in terms of availablity than what a JetJets pilot produces.
The irony of course is that NBAA average salaries ASAP is comparing itself to are derived from non-union wages at operations, which for the most part (Part 91, anyway), are not engaged in revenue-flying like they are.
This scab talk is hilarious, revealing more ignorance of the world they are comparing themselves to. Like it or not, NetJets sales tactics in the past and the willingness for its oblivious, low-wage crews to poach corporate customers generated a lot of animosity from the Part 91 world. By many, you were considered as close to scabs as you can get in the non-unionized environment of corporate aviation. That's died down quite a bit, but if it's started up again because your union wants to try and throw it's weight around with a "scab list" into operations that aren't their own and pilots who never drank your low-wage Kool-aid, you can only lose. The NBAA list is large, and outside of you, that's where most of the good jobs are. Why turn them into enemies?
People remember this stuff, and if you do plan to move on to another job you might as well have two sets of resume's.....an "airline" resume with your NetJets experience on it, and a "corporate" resume where you omit it completely and pretend you were working at 7-11 instead during that time. As was mentioned by someone else, I can hear the sound of NetJet pilots' resumes hitting a lot of circular files too if you go through with it. More than anything, a corporate flight department hires attitudes.
