Originally Posted by
Fishfreighter
Of course they didn't. But the simple fact is THEY ARE. Instead of finding other work (FAA, Jeppesen, or a thousand other aviation related jobs) they sold themselves to VX for substandard wages/benefits.
If you're going to prostitute yourself, don't do it for peanuts.
If you are prostituting yourself for peanuts at Virgin, what are the pilots who make half the pay at ALPA carriers like Compass doing?
And where are these thousands of other aviation related jobs. Obviously news of the recession and terrible economy over the last four years or so has not reached fishfreighter land.
Originally Posted by
Fishfreighter
I guess VX guys know what they're worth...currently $50 to $76 an hour LESS than other narrowbody pilots.
And yet, they can't understand even the simplest concept of how that effects all the rest of our wages.
Write it off to red Kool-Aid dementia.
What does that say about the pilots at USAirways east?
Looking at a side by side comparison, even ten year A320 captain pay at Delta is not close to $50/hr more than Virgin. Where are you looking at your figures, narrowbody pay at UPS and FedEx?!
Too bad I am on your ignore list, you may actually learn something. But ignorant people like to ignore truth and facts. Which of course is why ignore and ignorant share the same root.