Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
Add the young airtran group, and fairly small numbers leaving Southwest over the next 10 years, and that spells stagnation.
A stagnating FO at Southwest is averaging 145,000 per year and averaging 18 days off per month. Average! That's only about 40,000 per year less than I make and I'm at the top of the heap here at DAL.
The sad truth is that most DAL pilots won't ever get to the top wrung of the ladder, and as such, will make less money than a stagnating Southwest FO.
Carl