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Envoy Air offering pilots triple pay in July in effort to combat flight cancelations
American Airlines’ largest regional carrier Envoy Air is offering pilots triple the pay to pick up trips in July in an effort to avoid flight disruptions during the summer travel season... (www.aviationweekly.org) 기타...
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My concern would be the possibility of triple pay introducing a fatigue factor into the pilot shortage equation
If you pay them, they will come.
Maintenance, F/A & ground support staff will be the next stop in the bargaining for more pay. Then once all the new costs are added up, a new start-up with cheaper labor will arrive on the scene. But with no labor force to be had! Maybe it’s better to dial back flight frequency to a number that can be handled.
So, HF, as a source for 121 lore that I respect, what happens in Nov., Dec., the end of the calendar year and by far the most traveled periods for Xmas, new years and all these crews are timed out per the duty time regs.?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/121.471
1000/100/30/8 seems a show stopper to me unless crew scheduling has a 'big magic hat' with a bunch of crews to pull out of it!
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/121.471
1000/100/30/8 seems a show stopper to me unless crew scheduling has a 'big magic hat' with a bunch of crews to pull out of it!
I have no magic bullet answer here. Some might suggest that the airlines have brought this all down upon themselves by offering a product that is not sustainable under any circumstance. As much as I hate to admit it, airlines do not charge anywhere near enough these days to fly people around. Operating fewer routes might help with full load factors and maintain profitability, regardless whether domestic or international. When ULCC airlines were introduced all that happened was the carriers’ exhausted all resources in both inflight and ground support personnel to the point of burn out. Nobody thought or cared about attrition but here we are. There are still only 24 hours in a day and when you fill 14/15 of them with domestic aircraft ops the limited choices become either hire more crew (from where) or reduce the aircraft numbers (balance sheet) or reduce the number of aircraft ops, maintain crew complements & increase ticket price….result, happier, rested well paid employees & on time performance with happier, well behaved, passengers. Civility has to return to the skies and boarding some 230 pound gorilla in a wife beater tee shirt with no shoes or some skinny wanna be model dressed like a stripper is stupid. If employees are required to respect a dress code then so do the morons that sit in the back. No offense to gorillas or models! ……….you asked?
Spot on.
I agree they need to stay within their ability to deliver! They have been getting away with screwing over passengers for far too long!
