Originally Posted by RV5M
The idea of a $200,000 base salary airline captain just doesn't make sense to me when I consider the vast amount of knowledge and experience required for other jobs that pay slightly less.
Yup, makes no sense whatsoever highly compensating the highly experienced person responsible for a nine-figure asset containing hundreds of lives and/or millions of dollars of cargo in all types of weather.
Just a bunch of lunch pail carrying button pushers...assembly line workers of the sky with no education or knowledge required. So easy a caveman can do it.