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Originally Posted by Rocketman99  Speaking purely at the regional level - you know what all of that really says? It's that the company bid too low to provide the operation with the overhead that it needs. If that's the case, I could give one quarter of a crap less if the company can come up with the cash to pay more or not. What do any of us ever get to see as pilots? Management does great and all the employees get the shaft.
If my company really has no extra money laying around at all to give me a pay raise then fine, I guess I wont get one. But don't for a second try to con me into thinking that if you can then go out and buy new planes and companies and hand out nice management bonuses. That doesn't wash. I may be a pilot but I'm no young idiot. I'm about to turn 30, spent 10 years as an officer and pilot in the Air Force and have an advanced degree from the Colorado Mountain School for wayward children. I can spot BS from a good distance away.
Oh and Velo, we ALWAYS wanna hear from you!  |
I understand your point of view and it's logic. I really do. And I also sympathize with it. But here is some food for thought. A good percentage of the current contracts between regionals and their mainline leash holders were negotiated prior to the fuel cost spike of the last few years. Contracts bid out when Jet A was $2.50 a gallon five years ago allowed for more internal spending on everything from real creamer in the pilots lounge to flight crew pay. Now that fuel costs have skyrocketed so has everything else.
And as far as new airplanes...well...it hardly pays to pay pilots more to fly equipment that is down for maintenance more often then not. New aircraft acquisition is considered by airline management to be a higher priority then salaries. Not saying it's right or wrong, just saying how it is. You can't sell tickets on airplanes that are always broken.....And, the salary issue aside, you can't make any profit on older inefficient equipment.