United Airlines offers triple pay to pilots amid travel chaos

[dalton99a]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/united-airlines-offers-triple-pay-pilots-travel-chaos-rcna10553

United Airlines offers triple pay to pilots amid travel chaos
The pay bump will extend from Dec. 30 to Jan. 29, an airline executive said.
Dec. 31, 2021, 7:45 PM CST
By Tim Stelloh and Jay Blackman

United Airlines said Friday that it will offer triple pay to pilots who pick up extra flights as bad weather and the omicron variant continue to slam the airline industry, with thousands of trips canceled since Christmas.

A flight operations executive with the company, Bryan Quigley, said in a staff note obtained by NBC News that pilots would earn three-and-a-half times their pay for additional flights between Dec. 30 and Jan. 3.

They’ll earn triple pay for flying extra between Jan. 4 and 29, the note says.

Quigley called the offer "significant" and said the company reached the agreement with the Airline Pilots Association in an effort "to do everything we can to take care of our customers during this challenging time."

[tblue37]

1. Exhausted, overworked pilots. What could go wrong?

[Mr.Bill]

3. There are FAA limits that should

keep that from happening.

[captain queeg]

2. When the bloated management overhead realizes actual workers are needed to function

I’ve worked for private companies and government agencies. It seems like as “management” grows their function is more and more to minimize the costs to the company of actual workers. They pare down to bare bones, layoffs or reorganization’s are always directed at that level of worker. But when the shit hits the fan they realize without worker bees there is no income.

[bahboo]

4. how about flight attendants...