Originally Posted by
Slick111
Just to add fuel to the fire,......
* On a 1 hour flight in a 50 seat aircraft, (assuming an airplane full of revenue passengers), a first year First Officer (i.e. XJT) is paid 43 cents per seat. If it's a 67 seat airplane, every passenger contributes a mere 34 cents to the co-pilot for that same 1 hour flight.
* Same scenareo and a 5 year co-pilot; 82 cents of every passengers fare goes to the co-pilot on a CRJ 200. It falls to 64 cents per seat on the CRJ 700.
* At the top of the XJT CRJ 700 F/O payscale, (18 years) each passenger seat contributes a whopping 70 cents per hour to the co-pilot.
* 5 year Captain makes $1.36 per seat in the 200 but falls to $1.06 in the CRJ 700.
I wonder what the average CEO's cut per seat is....
Originally Posted by
Slick111
A regional airline could *DOUBLE* pilot pay by adding about $2.00 to the price of every ticket. And here's the dirty little secret that management won't admit: at the same time.........they could *DOUBLE* or *TRIPLE* their number of pilot applicants!
I've said for a long time that crews would do better if they were paid NOTHING by the company and instead passed a tip jar through the cabin. If every pax tipped only $10--far less than a standard 15% tip--the crew would do far better than they do now.