Lear70
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10% is too low, that barely covers COLA for the last 2+ years there hasn't been a COLA raise.FO pay needs to come up 10% initially and then annual cola raises from there. not voting for anything less. i actually think it should be more than that - especially if you are concerned about attrition. i took nearly a 50% pay cut to come here.. and id like to stay here for a career.. but as upgrade slows to 4-5-? years, and fo pay is what it is -many of us will be looking elsewhere too. the union has leverage when you consider training costs. in my opinion they are not asking for enough.
Unless you put retro pay in there to reimburse everyone for the COLA they failed to get, then 10% would be a good starting point,,, IF you were willing to pretty much go COLA only.
I'm not interested in that. I'm looking for JetBlue BLENDED F/O rates or better, preferrably splitting the difference between them and SWA. That's about a 20-25% pay raise initially (which is $10 to $15 per hour), followed by 3% COLA raises plus 3-5% longevity per year.
I'm coming up on my 1-year anniversary next month. The problem was they hired 3 straight months of 737 pilots behind us, so our seniority on the 717 side didn't build for a while.You've been posting for at least 6 mos. on AirTran threads, how long is reserve/build-up going now for FOs?
Oh, and CDOs
First build-up line in June after training done, Reserve July-December (6 months), then 3 months of buildup lines. Funny thing is, I keep slipping DOWN the buildup lines each month as more and more people come online. They're decreasing the number of hard lines for some reason, making more REL and RSV lines the last 2 months.
There's about 15-20 more 717 F/O's in the pipeline right now, hoping to be off reserve by my 1-year checkride.
I don't do CDO's. I'll bid reserve before I bid a CDO line. uke:
Yeah, the game's definitely afoot.Management has gotten really gung-ho on this contract all of the sudden, I think something is up other than Midwest that they need to get this thing wrapped up quick.
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