Originally Posted by
SAABaroowski
a "longjet CA" at Express gets paid for the 145, regardless if hes actually flying the 135/145. There is no excuse for a company to pay pilots 50 seat wages, or in some cases less than 50 seat wages, for 70 set airplanes. My point is, is that XJT is making money paying their pilots what they pay them, so how can SKYWEST justify paying their 70 seat pilots less than that. In proportion 70 seaters should be getting paid 20% more than the industry standard for 50 seaters, and they are not, they are getting paid below 50 seat rates in some cases!
Its the same typerating. cal pays their pilots the same for all 737 models. Delta pays their pilots the same for the 757/767-200-300 and now 400
Crj200/700/900 are all the same airplane. They pay us the same rate to reduce costs and get more flying and i'm Aok with that. Why do you have such a problem with it? Worry about your own company and let me worry about mine.