Flightaware

$33,368 of our dues spent on AR’s video studio!!! This is an outrageously irresponsible way to make good use of our money. If they’re so flippant with our dues then I think we need an audit and clear explanation of each expenditure. Additionally, it’s what we don’t see that’s also concerning. They spent $0 on lobbyists, consultants, or training for the negotiating committee, EXCO, or any other steward/committee member. You want to know why we keep losing arbitrations, getting nowhere in negotiations, and falling for company traps??? They don’t have a clue what they’re doing and they haven’t spent a dime to improve their position strategically.

xiovelrahc

You sir… should go work somewhere else bc we don’t need ppl who share your view working here.. you said we fly the same equipment.. we should be compensated the same… that’s where the conversation stops.

tom11011

You need to prove your paragraph.

Flightaware

this seems like proof

310skying

this filing is for 2021…. It’s 2023 now. All of the numbers in this have been throughly gone over by Erick in every union quarterly meeting. 33k for a good camera, lens, light, and computer capable of video editing isn’t unreasonable especially if you are looking for quick turn around and upload (also depreciation schedules are a thing, think like an MBA) and Erick shared this cost a year ago on the quarterly meeting. Also over 1million spent on representing us isn’t spending nothing…. Maybe you need to look closer at the filing

tom11011

Not so fast. While I agree with the need for capital expenditures to fund any new business, maybe the video camera expense needs explained to the pilot group. I don't know anything about video cameras but I do know a GoPro is less then a $1000. Maybe there is a perfectly good reason but maybe we should hear about it from the source.

Alexander12

Stockholm syndrome appears to have hit a few G4 pilots. Just because Allegiant is ULCC doesn’t mean pay and qol should be below industry standard. Shocked to see pilots saying G4 drivers should accept less pay

rabbo

So it’s a safe bet there are no raises planned in the short or near term to bring that year 1 pay up?

310skying

I’m sure it’s a total of all the equipment in his office plus a portion of the cost of improvements made to the home office space that was renovated (same thing you would do if you used a portion of your home for a home business) this number probably reflects the tax deduction number AR filed on his personal taxes for 2021, it’s a combination of real expenses along with a percentage portion of his whole home
remodel that is a tributes to his office space that is used for 2118 business. I bet the camera and computer probably total 5-7k of total expense and the rest is an estimate of improvements made. Sony a7 and a computer with a higher end graphics card will easily get you there

Margaritaville

This person is obviously an upper management troll, a HarrisonFord troll, or a insider management pilot who has been sent here to lower expectations. In all my years of line flying, I've never seen such a lame and obvious attempt to undermine a union negotiating position. You all would be well advised to ignore this person and demand your union negotiate for Delta+1%. Because just like in 2016, you'll quickly be leapfrogged by everyone again then spend another 5-10 years as the lowest paid airline pilots in the USA.

Asking for industry + 1% has been "pattern bargaining" since the beginning of airline unions. For Allegiant Management to come out and try to sell this dog crap that Allegiant is just a little 'ol ULCC and doesn't deserve/can't afford to pay industry standard rates is ridiculous. Just a couple of years ago, before the current crop of management buffoons (Hi Tracy) began running this place into the ground, they were the most profitable airline in the USA, per capita. More profitable than even mighty Delta (per capita). Now lately, they have bought back stock to triage the plummeting stock price, and keep your billionaire majority owner and chairman of the board's nest egg intact (Hi Maury), after the last 3 years of mismanagement.

No, this sad but funny display here by the management trolls only shows how scared they are. They just saw what the Delta pilots got and are crapping themselves that they might have to pay up. Well guess what, that's the going rate now. Either you pay it or you don't have an airline. Pilot labor has never been more than 30% of total expenditures at any airline. You just raise ticket prices to recoup or you cut somewhere else (Executive Compensation). That's the price of doing business. If management continues down this path of trolling and slapping the pilot group in the face, their terrible reputation in the industry will be further damaged, and recruitment will continue to get worse. It's already to the point that the only people who will drop an app here are those who couldn't get hired anywhere else, have little experience, are foreign, of who have so little ambition that they won't leave their small midwest town. That's a hell of a small recruiting pool. Good luck. No airline has EVER successfully shrunk to profitability, btw.

No, Tracy and co, either you pay up or you shut up. You're at a critical juncture here. Either you find a way to pay market labor rates or you shut the place down. It's that simple. I know you think you're going to run out the clock, hoping for the next economic crash that always seems 6 months away, but even that isn't going to help you this time. The big 3 aren't going bankrupt and there won't be 50% pay cuts. That's what it would take for them to fall down to current allegiant compensation packages. They are all "too big to fail" now and the bk laws have been revised. You won't last that long anyhow the way you're hemorrhaging junior pilots. Even senior guys like me and MS are bailing out now. You don't have time. The only thing that will fix this is getting an industry standard contract.

Make good choices. Both management and the pilots both employed at allegiant or considering it. "When someone shows who who they truly are, believe them". Allegiant management has shown their true colors repeatedly, but like an abused spouse many of you keep going back for another beating. Because they love you... they didn't really mean it. Yeah.

Wake up.