TwotterBerries, I'm more concerned that you think that pay and those bonds are acceptable. Everybody should strive to work hard, fly safe, get along with their co-workers. They should also strive to improve their pay and working conditions. Not only for themselves, but for everybody.
At the regional level, Jazz starting pay is crap because georgian pay is crap, and so is Encore pay, etc. If one company had significant gains, guess who would scoop up all the pilots, then everybody else would have to increase their pay to remain competitive. Belittling Laguardia because they're pointing out crap conditions doesn't make them entitled.
Laguardia wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 4:07 pm
who wants to spend 3-6 years of their life making essentially 20-40k a year? I wonder why there's this so called "shortage"...
Bingo! Kids in high school are realising there's better careers, and don't even become pilots. Nobody wants to make 36 grand and live out of a suitcase. Especially if I can make 50 grand and be home.
Places in the north can offer decent lifestyles and some make careers out of it. However, if a company is not going to treat pilots properly, they'll just be a revolving door "training academy" for everybody else.