Skywest v2.0
09-02-2017, 06:44 AM
#8181
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2016
Posts: 174
Compass just got 17,500$ bonus and 41$ to start. And Commute Air 22,100$ bonus paid before training starts.
09-02-2017, 10:23 AM
#8182
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2015
Position: LAX ER
Posts: 1,606
I haven't been here long enough to comment on that....but....based on the conversations I have with Captains, I know what you mean. It's still not as bad as some regionals, but I don't know how much it will affect our hiring in the future. Has yet to be seen.
09-02-2017, 12:43 PM
#8184
Ich bin Pilot von Beruf
Joined APC: Aug 2016
Position: CRJ Kapitän
Posts: 615
09-03-2017, 06:37 AM
#8186
Line Holder
Joined APC: Aug 2013
Position: CRJ FO
Posts: 58
This is a joke right? Nobody seriously believes this will be adopted industry wide (outside of the regionals) do they?
I'll eat my words once this is common practice at the majors. But until then this is just a scheme for regionals to poach from other regionals. Nothing more than another giveaway of leverage that only benefits new hires, and a small sub-group of pilots already on property.
Where is the reward for the pilots who were smart and did their research and came to SkyWest FIRST?!?! as opposed to rewarding the regional hoppers who got burned chasing the quick upgrade.
I'll eat my words once this is common practice at the majors. But until then this is just a scheme for regionals to poach from other regionals. Nothing more than another giveaway of leverage that only benefits new hires, and a small sub-group of pilots already on property.
Where is the reward for the pilots who were smart and did their research and came to SkyWest FIRST?!?! as opposed to rewarding the regional hoppers who got burned chasing the quick upgrade.
09-03-2017, 07:51 AM
#8187
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 40,017
Why would you care if another pilot makes his pay in experience? You don't know what other people's situations were at the time. As long you get paid what you should be, I wouldn't worry about other pilots' paychecks. If someone goes from Kmart to Target but gets paid for their experience, what's the difference? Exactly what pilots got burned? Everyone else is still chugging along fine. If a fellow pilot needs to come over and make pay for his years of experience which would help support his family, then fine.
Because that money isn't free. It had to come from somewhere, and it didn't come out of the senior manager bonus budget, or the mini indy car budget...it came out of the pilot compensation budget, at the expense of other more senior pilots.
The policy doesn't even make a lot of sense to me, I think regional managers are confronted with an apparently insurmountable problem with long-term pilot recruiting and are trying to do anything at all just to appear to be doing something. IMO the money would be better spent on ab-initio style training programs...if the regionals pay for flight training, they can obligate the pilots to literally years of indentured service. Wealthy wannabe's might opt out to preserve their career flexibility, but many folks without means would jump on that.
You got that part right at least.
09-03-2017, 08:11 AM
#8188
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: 767A (Ret)
Posts: 6,248
09-03-2017, 08:54 AM
#8189
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2015
Position: Downward Dog
Posts: 1,875
...we are all free-market capitalists until....
09-03-2017, 03:54 PM
#8190
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: ERJ CA
Posts: 1,082
It's at the expense of shareholders, not more senior pilots. The pilot group chose to leave that money on the table when they voted in the last TA, and thus it was no longer part of the pilot compensation budget.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
