New DEFO compensation? Any info? Rumors?
They were very cautious in HKG last week, and avoided any speculation on what kind of pay rates to expect in 2007 for new US freighter based DEFOs. Any rumors? Progress?
Considering the extremely high cost of living in some of the offered bases, I am obviously concerned (worried is more appropriate)!
I heard they want to bring the pax and cargo pay closer to each other. Does this mean a pay-raise for cargo, in addition to that already talked about pay cut for pax?
Could anybody shed some light on some of the latest rumors?
With a fairly significant amount of US carriers hiring at this time, wouldn't a pay cut on the freighter side drive a large amount of FOs to quit CX. A lot of guys in my airline already refused to apply because of the low pay for such a wide-body job compared to UPS/Fedex, or even compared to the pay on some national carriers like southwest. All guys with green cards and US passports have other flying opportunities that most European guys do not have.