Originally Posted by
bkaz
Airline pilots have been paid according to a formula that primarily uses aircraft max gross takeoff weight to determine hourly rate for decades. How is continuing to do the same thing a windfall for anyone? I would argue that the opposite is true.
And how do we address the issue of say the 787 under what you said above? A highly composite, lower weight aircraft which can/will go further possibly carrying the same amount of fuel as the plane is it intended to replace.
May need to be a paradigm shift in thinking about how we determine pay.