Originally Posted by
Hacker15e
Nowhere did "liveable wage" get mentioned.
The original post said, "Raise the pay of new-hire regional pilots to $60k a year, and have regional captains start at $100k a year".
I replied asking which company's business plan would support that....and so far nobody has had an answer. Lots of pilots seem to think they know that airlines can apparently afford to pay a lot more, yet don't know/care about the other financial workings from the business end.
So then tell me, how can airlines which were so used to oil being less than $30/barrel just 8 years ago, even stay in business now that the oil price is at least 3 times that?
I'll take it one step even further - how do the "regional" airlines overseas afford to pay what they pay pilots abroad?
Don't be naive and think that the regional, or even major airlines for that matter, cannot pay their pilots more.