Hmmm. . . I was at Skywest through two other ALPA no votes and my QOL didn't budge one bit. I think it may have actually improved over the years I was there. . . but that's just me. . . and I only spent seven years there. . .
That's true. But A) you left and went to an ALPA carrier and B) You didn't have a looming pilot shortage through those seven years.
When attrition triples
next year (as in, two to four months) and there are
no pilots to hire in from the bottom and management decides to pick up even more flying -- as is the current rumblings, -- guess who is going to be flying 100-hours a month at
straight pay with no more "temporary" junior man policy and no minimum 10 days off?
Everyone left behind.
Will it realistically get that bad? Hopefully
not. Probably
not. But they have an airline to run and
contracts to fulfill ...
The problem is we have no, none, zip, nada, absoloutely nothing to protect us
from it getting that bad. We're at-will employees.
A lot of domiciles are already averaging in the mid 90s a month and we're currently running with only a 2.7% reserve coverage (some domiciles have no reserves). Do the math and the above scenario isn't
all that unrealistic ...
