Originally Posted by
ryane946
The Q400 is a 74 seat aircraft. Here are the proposed pay rates. Now lets look at GoJets. They fly 66 seat aircraft.
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Q400 CA Colgan CRJ-700 CA GoJet
$53- 1st year $57 - 1st year
$55- 2nd year $58 - 2nd year
$56- 3rd year $60 - 3rd year
$58- 4th year $62 - 4th year
$60- 5th year $64 - 5th year
Q400 FO Colgan CRJ-700 FO GoJet
$21 - 1st year $23 - 1st year
$26 - 2nd year $25 - 2nd year
$27 - 3rd year $34 - 3rd year
Does anyone else see a problem here??? Lower than GoJet. We can talk about unions all we want, and how some people want Skywest to get a union, but Colgan needs one, and about $10/hr added to their pay rates.
They know they can get away with that pay just because it has props. It is sad but all the pilots today would rather get AIDS than fly freakin prop. This usually only takes a year or two to overcome though. By the time they have been at this career for 2 years many wish they had flown a turboprop before they moved on to the jets. Probably because the reality of sitting behind there jets controls doesn't seem to change regardless of the size of the aircraft. With each new type rating the New Jet feeling wears off faster, but they will likely never get the chance to fly a tubroprop airliner again.
I like to think this is similiar to the guys that get married to early, only to learn they wish they had dated just a few more years as they are now pretty much locked in for life.
I personally wouldn't mind getting the chance to fly every possible aircraft for a couple hundred hours. Unfortunately seniority and the no legislation for an "Age 100" yet won't allow for this.
