Originally Posted by
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Non-ALPA carriers now make as much or more than ALPA carriers. 50 seat captains make more per seat-mile flown than mainline pilots. Corporate pilots now look UP into the cockpit of their lower paid peers.
That's a terrible comparison. Clearly an Airbus or Guppy that has 3 times as many seats isn't going to pay three times as much. Its not linear like that.
Pilot jobs at non union carriers pay less overall than pilot jobs at union carriers, all other things being equal.
Using this analogy, a 747 should pay 2.5 times what a guppy makes, which isn't possible with the stupid pay banding to a 767-400.