Originally Posted by
outaluckagain
You make quite a comparison here between widebody captains and what most are earning. I doubt anyone on this thread is wining about the pay at the majors, but rather the weak pay at regional levels.
Regradless of what you refer to as getting paid to sit or sleep in a hotel room, the pay is too low. How can wages well below what it takes to pay a modest mortgage and save for retirement be considered acceptable by any means.
Pilots commonly make the mistake of assuming that years of low pay after accummalating massive debt will be "made up for" later. Later may never come!! You could easily never get hired by a major or even get furloughed when you do finally get hired. Just look at those UA guys who had been on furlough for the better part of a decade.
I really think pilots shoud stop looking at themselves as "future widebody captains", and take a good hard look at their current situation and try to make improvements from there.
Look, I'm trying to say that a regional pilot has the same job and responsibility as a major, so why work for such low wages?
First (in case you only read the first line) - I agree with you 100% that regional pilots are grossly underpaid.
If I was your high school English teacher, you'd get an F for reading comprehension.
Did you actually read my entire first post in this thread or just skim it?
I was merely commenting on
HOW most of us are actually paid - not
WHAT any of us are paid. So, there were no comparisons made between WB Captain pay at a major and regional pilot pay as you seem to be claiming.
I think if you read the posts I made here this afternoon, you'll see that I basically agree with just about everything you just posted (except the mischaracterization of my original post).