Originally Posted by
Fegelein
The reality is that flying an airliner is EASY. This job as a whole is EASY.
Yup, so easy that everybody does it.
Guess that is why commercial (or higher) licensed pilots are less than 1% of the population of the US.
Regional airlines are entry level jobs and employ entry level workers who should be making entry level wages. Regional pilots in this thread are like McDonalds burger flippers complaining that they are not paid and treated like an executive chef at a five star restaurant. GTF over yourselves.
Yup, the commuters are entry level jobs not un-unlike Mickey D's.
One major difference. Mickey D's employees are unskilled labor while pilots are skilled labor even at the beginning of their airline careers and should be compensated higher than un-skilled labor.
The commuters have had a glut of available pilots over the last decade (or more) so they could be picky and pay (abysmally) lower wages. Now those days are coming to an end and the now those companies that have been making money hand-over-fist by not paying their pilots are the ones screaming bloody murder.
2bad2sad.
Come on Fegelin, what self-loathing management puke are you?