I suppose the worst thing is that management DO read these forums. I guess they just dismiss them as pilot bitching, at their peril.
The point that IS being made over and over, is that the job has changed. There is now NO lifestyle which is attached to very poor money, comparatively. Respect to the pilot group is out the window, and the AFAP is sitting on their fat a$ses collecting union fees from seriously underpaid members.
When a 10+ yr captain can LEAVE REX, and take up a Direct Entry Captaincy on a DHC-8 across the road, on the SAME(or better) money, yet expect incremental and inflationary pay rises for the next ten years, with better staff travel allowances and ground support,to do essentially the same job.... who is going to stay ?When a junior pilot can leave to a LCC jet job, fork out $40K and STILL be better off financially after year one... who is going to stay?
unfortunately, when one "peaks" at REX, there is a LONG way to go to the glass ceiling... even in regional airlines!
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