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03-31-2016, 07:18 AM
#7552
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2009
Posts: 468
Well...good for you and the other content newbies. I would need a daily break away from anything 'blue'. One of the best descriptions I've heard of the lodge is that it's "as if JB vomited all over the place". Plus, I wouldn't want to live with the potential of being watched by company moles at any given moment.
I stand by my comments that the pay is pathetic. The company will say that they can't raise the pay because of paragraph 3A in some pilot's PEA's. The fact is they got around 3A by offering a retention bonus after 1 year of $6,000. Then, the company took the bonus away (1/1/15) and cut the pay to $2,000/mo. Again, the company spin will say that newbies actually get more due to the $26/day to spend in the cafeteria. Not everybody wants to eat cafeteria food for 6 weeks, however.
GP
I stand by my comments that the pay is pathetic. The company will say that they can't raise the pay because of paragraph 3A in some pilot's PEA's. The fact is they got around 3A by offering a retention bonus after 1 year of $6,000. Then, the company took the bonus away (1/1/15) and cut the pay to $2,000/mo. Again, the company spin will say that newbies actually get more due to the $26/day to spend in the cafeteria. Not everybody wants to eat cafeteria food for 6 weeks, however.
GP
Doesn't DL still make you pay for part of your hotel? What would a newhire there and at other carriers net, after paying for a hotel and meals etc?
03-31-2016, 07:32 AM
#7553
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2015
Position: Spinning things under the wings
Posts: 47
cool so back to BUF and SYR for me. Do we wonder through BOS or do they try keep crews in their own base? (Out and backs - or leave JFK not to return until day 4)
03-31-2016, 07:32 AM
#7554
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2008
Position: Left,Right, Left, Right,Right,Left, Right, Left
Posts: 3,150
Well...good for you and the other content newbies. I would need a daily break away from anything 'blue'. One of the best descriptions I've heard of the lodge is that it's "as if JB vomited all over the place". Plus, I wouldn't want to live with the potential of being watched by company moles at any given moment.
I stand by my comments that the pay is pathetic. The company will say that they can't raise the pay because of paragraph 3A in some pilot's PEA's. The fact is they got around 3A by offering a retention bonus after 1 year of $6,000. Then, the company took the bonus away (1/1/15) and cut the pay to $2,000/mo. Again, the company spin will say that newbies actually get more due to the $26/day to spend in the cafeteria. Not everybody wants to eat cafeteria food for 6 weeks, however.
GP
I stand by my comments that the pay is pathetic. The company will say that they can't raise the pay because of paragraph 3A in some pilot's PEA's. The fact is they got around 3A by offering a retention bonus after 1 year of $6,000. Then, the company took the bonus away (1/1/15) and cut the pay to $2,000/mo. Again, the company spin will say that newbies actually get more due to the $26/day to spend in the cafeteria. Not everybody wants to eat cafeteria food for 6 weeks, however.
GP
I ate at the lodge for the first time last week. Pleasantly surprised actually. For $8 the salad bar cant be beat(if you leave hungry you did it wrong), and they had some fish stuffed fish thing that didn't suck.
But, yea, you need to be able to get away from the cult.
03-31-2016, 07:41 AM
#7555
Saab Saab Phooey!
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: Set Hundo
Posts: 479
Not saying our newhire pay/lodging is superb by any means, but I'm just curious about the newhire experience at DL, AA, UA, SWA in terms of pay and lodging and I guess food/per diem is included as well.
Doesn't DL still make you pay for part of your hotel? What would a newhire there and at other carriers net, after paying for a hotel and meals etc?
Doesn't DL still make you pay for part of your hotel? What would a newhire there and at other carriers net, after paying for a hotel and meals etc?
03-31-2016, 09:40 AM
#7556
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: 190 FO
Posts: 406
If you want a lot variety of trips then bid to BOS. Some trips you'll be in BUF but other times you can get SJU, MSY, AUS and a lot of Florida layovers. JFK has them too but just a lot less options since the size of the 190 base is smaller.
03-31-2016, 12:44 PM
#7560
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2011
Position: CA
Posts: 1,039
Well...good for you and the other content newbies. I would need a daily break away from anything 'blue'. One of the best descriptions I've heard of the lodge is that it's "as if JB vomited all over the place". Plus, I wouldn't want to live with the potential of being watched by company moles at any given moment.
I stand by my comments that the pay is pathetic. The company will say that they can't raise the pay because of paragraph 3A in some pilot's PEA's. The fact is they got around 3A by offering a retention bonus after 1 year of $6,000. Then, the company took the bonus away (1/1/15) and cut the pay to $2,000/mo. Again, the company spin will say that newbies actually get more due to the $26/day to spend in the cafeteria. Not everybody wants to eat cafeteria food for 6 weeks, however.
GP
I stand by my comments that the pay is pathetic. The company will say that they can't raise the pay because of paragraph 3A in some pilot's PEA's. The fact is they got around 3A by offering a retention bonus after 1 year of $6,000. Then, the company took the bonus away (1/1/15) and cut the pay to $2,000/mo. Again, the company spin will say that newbies actually get more due to the $26/day to spend in the cafeteria. Not everybody wants to eat cafeteria food for 6 weeks, however.
GP
I stand by my comments saying that the pay can be better, and would rather stay at a hotel. BUT, that's not how things are. Hopefully they improve for future newhires, but just because things can be improved does not mean that it makes things miserable.
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