Originally Posted by
Senior Skipper
Sorry if I came across as launching a personal attack, but I don't think 40k is anything to feel good about as a professional pilot.
In truth, if wingtips can pay all the bills on 40k there's nothing wrong with it. My problem lies with the mindset that "I'm a regional FO; I'm supposed to be starving, so 40k is a really big deal". That attitude is is part of the reason we're paid so poorly, and it has to stop.
I completely agree with you... Why should a 4year FO on the E190 at republic make 37$ and a 4year at Jetblue make 79$? I guess its 2 totally different jobs...
Airline mangmnt has done their jobs very very well... getting a 26 year old to think that after 4 or 5 years of flying making 40K is awesome.
Makes me sick.
And now at my airline mangmnt is crying that the pilots are over paid... 5 or 6 year FOs are making 41$... over paid!!!!! This industry in US is total crap and will never get better just because people would do this job for free.
Air Canada Jazz CRJ2 FO on 5th year pay 58$... why dont they make slave wages?
Pilots in the US are expolited because we let it happen. Then we spread our disease oversea's... look at ASA's Air Mekong or whatever that place is called... going to Vietnam for US regional wages, its no wonder we are looked on like crap.