What world are you in? We have an exemption that allows us to fly 1400 hours a year as a 121 airline since we are in Alaska. If I flew every one of those hours I'd still make less than $30k a year. We don't have a guarantee, I think big sky's guarantee is like $18k a year.

Check out the youtube video "so you want to be a regional airline pilot" for some numbers on starting pay at a lot of these places. Sure if you average out between F/Os and captains you might get that number, but you aren't averaging out to get the $300k number either.

And there are NOT very many 300k guys at all. There are a whole lot more regional pilots than high paid majors pilots... and I would venture that there are probobly more regional pilots than major pilots overall anyway.


I'll take you up on your "guarantee" challenge and say that I think he's spot on.

BTW, first year pay at Alaska airlines is around $35k.