Originally Posted by FrontSeat

that is true but the ocean freighter companies do not employ 3000 or more pilots and have the associated expenses of hotels, recurrent training, many many simulators and the infrastructure to support all of that. I know these numbers are probably way off but lets assume an average salary of 150k per pilot at 3000 pilots. plus all the hotels and training costs and retirement contributions medical benifits, it must come to almost 1 billion a year. for a company such as UPS. If someone has the actual average salary per pilot please chime in. I am just wondering what the difference in cost would be in keeping pilots vs aquireing uav's and getting the ground staff and infrastructure up to speed.

of course this is all for fun and speculation at this time. Does anyone know what a Global Hawk costs?