You have to be kidding! How on earth can the airline pay us market rates when they just gave us 4 hotel rooms, in base, each month! That must add up to 160 a month! Did they tell you it is considered taxable compensation?

I was talking to the guy who mows my neighbor's lawn yesterday. ( I do my own.) He says he picks lawns without a lot of trees, no swing sets or other obstacles. He says he can do 4 lawns an hour at 30 a lawn by himself. Not sure what his equipment costs are. He doesn't do the work himself any more but keeps 3 crews going.

Looking at what he used to do himself that was 120 an hour. But he must know how to use that complex dangerous equipment. Then here is the liability of driving the truck from lawn to lawn down the street. What if he mows down some flowers? What if he hits a rock and dulls his blade? Might take an hour to change that blade! Why on earth would airline pilots expect to make $120,000 a year sitting on their butts drinking coffee and sodas when the operator of complex equipment barely makes more than that? Dream on!