Originally Posted by
maxjet
About 7 years ago I was flying an RJ. A middle aged UPS captain asked for a ride up front. We of course granted it. Once out on the taxiway the airport was closed for departing traffic and we were told to shut down. For another 1 hour we were beat to death with his complaining about how it was utterly insane that UPS only paid him $225,000.00 a year base pay. After listening to him for much too long I pointed to my new hire FO and said to him "do you have any idea how much she makes?" He said "no" and I told him "about $18,000 base" His response took the cake when he said "Well why would you work here?" and then went on about how expensive his kids private school was. Some guys just don't have a clue.
sorry about the experience, I hope most of us on the cargo side would be the best jump seaters ever as we offer so little of them in return. I hope when you ride on mine you walk away happy and more then willing to help out my fellow commuting pilots.
As a side note he was trying to brag, his base pay 7 years ago at top scale was $190 a hour. 975 hours a year =185,250. He would have needed a 22% pay raise.