Originally Posted by
full of luv
How much will foreign contract work if say one of the legacies goes bk for good? The reason contract work pays more is because it has too compete for labor. How bout 2020 with 12,000 legacy pilots dumped on the economy and other countries eventually train their own pilots won't be much of a contract job market then. By definition contract work is temporary.
Ek is not a contract gig, but yes many are. The American labor groups are actually dragging the global pay down not up. What crj pilots are paid here is unheard of abroad.