Originally Posted by Flitestar

Clamp,

You gotta throw the tax-free and the housing in there in the mix too, at least just for procedure's sake in order to come close to an apples-apples comparison.

For ease of calculation, just see how long it would take for a DL FO to make $132,000 after taxes. I used guarantee for my numbers, but you get my point.

This is not a jab at DL, didn't mean to strike a nerve there. Just grab them as an example.

I see your angle about trying to look at the big picture, the problem is that management and ALPA have failed to look after lots of regional pilot groups in terms of protecting their income on behalf of the mainline carriers they also represent without shame. I will not fault a pilot who pursues a flying job in the ME chasing money, after the same Union who cries "faul" at foreign carriers failed miserably at protecting this pilots' income, seniority and QOL through acquisitions, mergers, concessionary contracts, endorsements from big wigs to pilot groups to take concessions, the list goes on.

The moment ALPA stops representing mainline carriers as well as the regional feeds of said airline, then some may start listening to what they have to say...