Originally Posted by
pagey
It's about double what it is now. I'd say thats going in the right direction.
I made 60+k as a restaurant manager before I was a pilot. Why shouldn't it be 60k?
I know correctional officers with no college degree with only a few years on the job making 60, 70k with 6 weeks vacation and a pension at 20 years. I could go on and on with this.
Fact of the matter is that 40k first year would bring people to the profession that otherwise would not come back, or even start. I would also hope that with the 40k first year pay regional FO wages could reach 60 or 70k with seniority.
People used to say "it's not what your worth, its what you negotiate". But in reality, it simply boils down to the law of supply and demand for the most part.
Further, one might think that if the industry wants to keep doing business this way, it will have to change. But the truth is the industry can't continue to do business this way and expect to have a marketable product.
The way business is going to be done will have to change. It has to. I'm glad to see unions from a variety of regional airlines starting to pull together. Every group in the airlines is represented by an association of some kind (not a union), why should airline pilots be any different.