Netjets New Payscale

[dsptchrnja]

Heard this week from a training Capt. that we are getting an influx of United pilots and the interview classes are full. Many of these pilots are 16,000+ hour retired guys who are just itchin to fly. Welcome!

 

[VmaxFlyR]

Heard this week from a training Capt. that we are getting an influx of United pilots and the interview classes are full. Many of these pilots are 16,000+ hour retired guys who are just itchin to fly. Welcome!

What a "pleasure" it would probably be to fly with a "retired" (disgruntled?) United guy, whom after a long career, with plans of a nice retirement, foiled by pay and pension cuts, is forced back into the cockpit after age 60...I'm sure they'll be thinking: "this is sure some retirement I got..."

 

[Sun Tzu]

More hearsay from a casino worker. I really doubt there are very many 16000+ hour united guys coming to work here at netjets. If it is true then all the better. We have some of the most active union volunteers that are retired United Captains. They know what they are worth and have been through union busting tactics again and again and are not scared easily. I would rather see 500 retired United pilots than 500 first time CFI's that are just happy to be in the right seat of a shiny new jet. The seniority list will show the facts in the coming weeks.

 

[G4dude]

More hearsay from a casino worker. I really doubt there are very many 16000+ hour united guys coming to work here at netjets. If it is true then all the better. We have some of the most active union volunteers that are retired United Captains. They know what they are worth and have been through union busting tactics again and again and are not scared easily. I would rather see 500 retired United pilots than 500 first time CFI's that are just happy to be in the right seat of a shiny new jet. The seniority list will show the facts in the coming weeks.

Yep! They ruined United, now they can help ruin NJA, jumping off the ALPA broken down nag onto the Teamsters' equally destructive bunch of hooligans.

 

[Sun Tzu]

G4dude, you should move to management if you are not there already. Thinking like that has put the aviation industry in the toliet. Blame labor, blame the pilots, blame this, blame that. When management points a finger at pilots for causing a company to fall they have 3 fingers pointing back at themselves. Unions and organized pilots are not the problem! Last I checked, Southwest Pilots and Flight Attendents were unionized and I don't see their management blaming them for the current situation. There are more examples of poor leadership and bad management decisions than there are of Unions ruining an industry or company. It is real easy to make labor the vilian, while hiding mismanagement of resources and poor decisions.

 

[CapnVegetto]

G4dude, you should move to management if you are not there already. Thinking like that has put the aviation industry in the toliet. Blame labor, blame the pilots, blame this, blame that. When management points a finger at pilots for causing a company to fall they have 3 fingers pointing back at themselves. Unions and organized pilots are not the problem! Last I checked, Southwest Pilots and Flight Attendents were unionized and I don't see their management blaming them for the current situation. There are more examples of poor leadership and bad management decisions than there are of Unions ruining an industry or company. It is real easy to make labor the vilian, while hiding mismanagement of resources and poor decisions.

Couldn't have been said any better by anyone. Anybody that wants to blame labor just needs to look at SWA. Highest paid, best treated labor in the business, and just look at them. They are on top because of innovative and smart management, as well as labor that is treated right and willing to work their butt off for management that they trust.

When was the last time you heard SWA labor complaining about their managment being dishonest, cooking the books, lining their pockets, etc. NEVER. NJA, FLOPS, every major, and every regional should be learning from this, yet the vast majority of managment teams out there still seem to think 'rape your labor and line your pockets' is a valid business plan.

 

[Some Dude]

The retired guys on my fleet are very strong union. I just had a retired guy three tours ago. It was only his 4th tour. He can't believe how hard we work. He also believed we were truely some of the best pilots he has ever flown with. His comment was "the captains at NJA have ten times the responsiblity that I ever had my whole airline career." He also said "if the pay doesn't come up here then I'm going to leave." Welcome indeed.

 

[Muddauber]

G4dude, you should move to management if you are not there already. Thinking like that has put the aviation industry in the toliet. Blame labor, blame the pilots, blame this, blame that. When management points a finger at pilots for causing a company to fall they have 3 fingers pointing back at themselves. Unions and organized pilots are not the problem! Last I checked, Southwest Pilots and Flight Attendents were unionized and I don't see their management blaming them for the current situation. There are more examples of poor leadership and bad management decisions than there are of Unions ruining an industry or company. It is real easy to make labor the vilian, while hiding mismanagement of resources and poor decisions.

Southwest pilots belong to SWAPA, a non-profit financially responsible employee organization. The flight attendants belong to the Transport Workers Union Local 556. In the long run, Southwest cannot afford the contract that they signed with the flight attendants last year. As you probably recall they were threatening to picket our opening of the Pittsburgh base. We are only profitable right now because of fuel oil and unleaded gasoline fuel hedging.

Muddy

 

[FamilyGuy]

This whole contract mess is just business, nothing more, nothing less. If you take it personally then you have no business working for a company that uses Union labor. For all the casino employees that feel threatened by the Union, I'm sure you could go work for CS or Flops!

I agree, contract negotiations are simply business. I dont see anyone in the flight center taking the negotiations personally. In fact, most people here support your case to get a fair raise. We know all the hard work that the pilots do every day.

What I do see people in the flight center taking personally is all the misleading and disparaging attacks being made a small group of union militants in public forums such as this board in an effort to discredit a very good company.

All we want is for this group to treat the negotiations as business as well....stop the public bashing and go back in and negotiate based on the facts.

That includes stopping all the public rants against the company on these boards. If you dont want to see us on these boards then stop posting the misleading statements and personal attacks on the company and we have no reason to be here....

 

[FamilyGuy]

Question:
Why did Netjets atttempt to raise newhire pay, outside (above) current rates, if these 8,000+ furloughed pilots SHOULD have been more than glad to get any flying job, as you state?

What kind of employee should Netjets want to attract, and keep? Committed, long term employees, or those just looking to wait out their furloughed time? Stable companies need stable employees, no?

I thought Netjets preferred "career employees"...if not at least be honest enough at face value, like the commuters were, to represent that Netjets is just a "stop along the way."

I think you answered your own question Vmax. The company tried to raise the newhire rate, no strings attached, because it was the right thing to do and they want committed, long term employees here.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Couldn't have been said any better by anyone. Anybody that wants to blame labor just needs to look at SWA. Highest paid, best treated labor in the business, and just look at them. They are on top because of innovative and smart management, as well as labor that is treated right and willing to work their butt off for management that they trust.

When was the last time you heard SWA labor complaining about their managment being dishonest, cooking the books, lining their pockets, etc. NEVER. NJA, FLOPS, every major, and every regional should be learning from this, yet the vast majority of managment teams out there still seem to think 'rape your labor and line your pockets' is a valid business plan.

Capn - no one here at NetJets is blaming labor. No one here at NetJets is asking for concessions from labor. NetJets has an offer of 23%-40% raises on the table to the pilot group.

For perspective, here's the current payscales for 5 year captain for NetJets, the other fractionals, and a sampling of airlines. All data came from airlinepilotpay.com.
[font=Verdana,arial][/font]
[font=Verdana,arial]NetJets...............60,984
CitationShares..... 63,996
FlightOptions....... 66,372
FlexJet............... 70,737

Delta................ 115,440
American........... 112,128
United................ 93,600
Continental........ 116,640
US Air............... 100,224
America West..... 115,128
JetBlue.............. 101,640
ComAir................ 61,200
Pinnacle.............. 55,800
[/font]

Last time I looked putting raises of this magnitude on the table doesnt fall into the category of "raping your labor and lining your pockets".

 

[cgmason1]

Just to play devils advocate-the numbers you posted for a 5 year Cpt at JetBlue would be right if they only flew 70 hours and got min guarantee.

Most 5 year JB CPT's are flying in the 80 plus range and with the time and a half above 70 earn in the neighborhood of 130k plus per year.

Also for the record-I have worked at NetJets and JB and the job at NetJets is allot harder with allot more details to worry about to provide a quality product.
NJA guys should be paid for the quality product they produce and the many many minute details they have to worry about-I won't even get into the issue of flying into a different airport day after day in regards to the dangers and issues that represents.
ie crew that had a brake failure in the Ultra in Texas, and still managed to pull the owners out of a burning aircraft-how much is that worth?

Fly Safe
Chuck

 

[Fozzy]

[QUOTE=dsptchrNJA]Heard this week from a training Capt. that we are getting an influx of United pilots and the interview classes are full. Many of these pilots are 16,000+ hour retired guys who are just itchin to fly. Welcome![/QUOTE]

LIAR!!! I call Bull$hit! You are such a fing mole. I may be coming off strong but you are so full of "I was hired by NJA to post this complete crap" that I want to strangle you.

I was just at FSI CMH. Our IP was very forthcoming on how things really are. (better tell your boss to put a muzzle on the FSI folks) And let me tell you, it is not good. New hires are walking out, during class and sim. One guy, right in the middle of the sim, "I don't need this $hit" and quit. God bless him. New hires with LESS than the min's required. Classes half full. Many of the new hires are shady at best. And now the company wants to put an end to IOE. Boy Gary, that is a smart move. Our IP was a very worried about signing off these guys for the line.

So where are the thousands of pilots hungry for NJA??!!?? Sorry moron they don't exist!

 

[dsptchrnja]

LIAR!!! I call Bull$hit! You are such a fing mole. I may be coming off strong but you are so full of "I was hired by NJA to post this complete crap" that I want to strangle you.

I was just at FSI CMH. Our IP was very forthcoming on how things really are. (better tell your boss to put a muzzle on the FSI folks) And let me tell you, it is not good. New hires are walking out, during class and sim. One guy, right in the middle of the sim, "I don't need this $hit" and quit. God bless him. New hires with LESS than the min's required. Classes half full. Many of the new hires are shady at best. And now the company wants to put an end to IOE. Boy Gary, that is a smart move. Our IP was a very worried about signing off these guys for the line.

So where are the thousands of pilots hungry for NJA??!!?? Sorry moron they don't exist!

Not sure if you calling me a liar for making up what I heard or the pilot a liar for telling me that. Either way, like Sun Tzu said, if it's true it will show up on the seniority lists soon.

I think what is striking about your post is your abhorrence to anything that might be interpreted as a positive news for the company. Your blatent hatred and vengence for this company is exactly the reason your non-bargaining associates are not lining up behind you. In fact you are scaring them. I highly recommend you find work where the prosperity of the company doesn't threaten you so much. If a new-hire can't even make it through the sim - I agree - God bless him for knowing his limits and tolerences and quiting rather than revolting. He's sounds smart to me. You on the other hand, are scary.

 

[Some Dude]

Family Guy you are such an idiot to believe the company wants long term employees (pilots). If that were true then why the heck would they hire any retired airline guys. They guys are only going to work mabe three years at the most. The guys I have talked to are just staying until the training contract is over. Once again gets some nuts and tell what your job is at NJA. You have NO common sense in regards to this company that I really do think your are just some stooge the company hired to write some posts. The company should get their money back because you don't make any points with real facts.