Do all new-hires go into the EMB-190 (the only $41 1st year pay scale)?
The payscale for new-hire pay on everything else looks to be $25 an hour according to APC...? $39 if you are hired under the AW contract which, since UAir is the one hiring, is a big question mark...?
$25 an hour? No way, no how, thanks anyway.
No, I understand wanting to get out of your regional, I did 5 years at PCL with rarely better than 12 days off and increasingly uncommutable lines, mandatory junior manning and extensions, etc... There's a lot to be said for Quality of Life.
However, being a career F/O doesn't sound very appealing to me, either. America West hired almost 75% of their pilots in the last 5-7 years if memory serves. That means you'd be going to UAir with a seniority number that would put you at the bottom of the pile for a long, long time.
Unless you're under 30, you'll spend more of your major career as an F/O than you will as a CA. That just sucks... Not to mention problems with saving any money for retirement with NO pension.
I honestly haven't followed the contract negotiations much, but unless pay snapped back to pre-9/11 levels at UAir, 15 years as an F/O works out to an average of $84,500 a year, and doesn't get above $60,000 (what I need to just barely support my family of 4) until 3rd year pay.
Just can't afford to do it. I'm amazed anyone else can either, unless you're currently an F/O at a regional in which case it might be break-even 1st year...?
Unless it's a "jump on board and pray for a good raise" kind of plan.
uke: Good to know it's more than that.
