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Old 09-11-2014, 08:08 AM
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akulahunter
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Let me caveat this with... 'Pilots should be paid better, and would be in a perfect world'

However... Your math is correct... IN a situation where a company only had to man one aircraft of two pilots and that was all that mattered.

BUT... How many total pilots does a company have compared to the number that are actually flying that day? On reserve, on vacation, sick, etc... In a vacuum it might be $.33, across a company it is much more. Add on top of that, tertiary things that you aren’t really thinking about like (hey I make more, I'm going to put more in my 401k. Which the company has to match).

Companies aren’t in a vacuum. A $10/hr raise for every pilot would have a much larger impact than you are thinking. Even if it were just a $10 supplement to actual flying (i.e. was paid for each hour flown, not on reserve or brought up to meet guarantee) it would still have all of the tertiary effects you aren't counting, just at a lesser rate.
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