Not just 2021, need to go back to pre-2001 and look at the inflation adjusted pay CUTs to the piloting profession in the last 23 years.lostaviator wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 6:13 pmMaybe you should spend some timing tearing inflation data apart because 4% doesn't even begin to cover our real wage decrease since the beginning of 2021. Inflation has been above 4% for the last 20 months.accountant wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 5:48 pm Lol so many disgruntled pilots who instead of using facts just called names.
Told you don’t deserve a raise. All you need to do is show me why economically within The financials you need significant raises. Our market doesn’t support it. I’ve shown you and read airline financials and torn them apart in far more detail than I’ve listed.
Baseline you deserve 4pct. Anything more under current economics makes no sense financially.
25 years of unscrupulous managers (not just WJ, but industry wide) have made the job into something fewer people want to do. We're not just competing within aviation for existing pilots. We're competing for high-school kids who are in the process of choosing a career. Currently they're being driven away from the profession because it's unappealing. Through COVID, I received more layoff notices than both my parents in their entire careers combined. I understand where I sit on management list of concerns. I'm an expense that us to be minimized and they don’t care one bit about me, my coworkers or our needs as people. 2020, 2008 and 2001 made that abundantly clear. Now the process works the other way. If pilots are just an expense to be minimized, then our incomes and working conditions are just a number to be maximized. Don't care about management's problems as they proved repeatedly that they don't care about ours. Maybe we can make the job into something a high-school kid wants to do so management stops complaining about the "pilot shortage" that they created.