Contract negotiations
#441
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I’ve been running into a few new hires that believe we’re getting a TA very soon, within next couple months. They obviously aren’t familiar with our management. For anyone thinking this will happen, ask yourself this: would G4 management increase pilot expenses by 40-50% when their economist are predicting a 99% chance of a recession? The training department has been almost doubled, expect 2 classes per month indefinitely, 1 to cover attrition and 1 to slowly grow the list. By the way, it cost significantly less to replace attrition than to pay the whole pilot group a respectable wage with work rules, even when cancelled flight revenue is factored in. As long as new hires continue to show up, there will be no TA for years.
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That's because there is no plan. Andrew asks, company says no, Andrew pitches a fit, company laughs, Andrew puts out a cryptic video, company brags to investors what a great job they're doing holding the line. Wash rinse repeat. By this time next year there won't be a pilot shortage. Maury ain't no dummy.
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That's because there is no plan. Andrew asks, company says no, Andrew pitches a fit, company laughs, Andrew puts out a cryptic video, company brags to investors what a great job they're doing holding the line. Wash rinse repeat. By this time next year there won't be a pilot shortage. Maury ain't no dummy.
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#445
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folks who say we’ve only been in negotiations for a year, are the same ones who say regional FOs only deserve $25 an hour because they paid their dues so everyone else should too.
times change, this not the same industry, or environment. Even the company knows that and has put more money out the door than they ever have because of it.
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Look at the facts, we have lost 69 pilots since the beginning of the year and hired 118. This nets +49 on the list and the number of classes have just increased to 2 per month for most months going forward so growth will be increasing assuming new hires keep showing up. If you do the math that attrition cost roughly 12 million a year to replace @ 70k a training cycle (2 per CA leaving). Guess what a 40% or 50% raise raise with a new contract would cost vs replacing attrition? It's significantly more, a conservative estimate would be 7 times more while factoring in lost revenue from cancelled flights (which will subside).
Unfortunately this is not true, see above. It would cost more to pay our list what we are worth, their solution has been to keep increasing hiring classes, increase TA hopium and outpace attrition. Also don't ignore that every economist is expecting a 99% percent chance of a recession and mngt has always been conservative with increasing cost during times of uncertainty. Unfortunately they will continue to enjoy their 50% pilot labor discount at our expense.
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Look at the facts, we have lost 69 pilots since the beginning of the year and hired 118. This nets +49 on the list and the number of classes have just increased to 2 per month for most months going forward so growth will be increasing assuming new hires keep showing up. If you do the math that attrition cost roughly 12 million a year to replace @ 70k a training cycle (2 per CA leaving). Guess what a 40% or 50% raise raise with a new contract would cost vs replacing attrition? It's significantly more, a conservative estimate would be 7 times more while factoring in lost revenue from cancelled flights (which will subside).
Losing a pilot today to somewhere else won't be replaced by a newhire until after the summer peak is over.
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I'm also not in recruiting/training but are we getting adequate pilots? How many have multiple training failures or other issues that would make them unhirable elsewhere? Obviously a great hire because they can't leave until they eat training resources like a fat kit or screw up on the line and damage an airplane.
It's all fun and good cost savings until you need to give a new hire 25 sims.
It's all fun and good cost savings until you need to give a new hire 25 sims.
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Regarding the example you used, it may be because use of the radar is barely even discussed in training (along with MANY other things) and we rely on experienced captains to give us some guidance :-)
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