Originally Posted by
feltf4
Thanks. This is all eye opening..
So although $305 for a wide body at United is impressive it's really not a new thing given 2004 rates that have been listed...
Interesting. I was still in high school learning to fly in 2004, I knew pilots made "mega" bucks, but now that I'm in the big leagues it's interesting to see where we are now and where it actually was before. (Only talking pay rates nothing more)
Although the 2004 UAL pay rates were quite lucrative we never made it to those rates. In January 2003 all United pilots took a 30% cut in hourly rates. Also, by that time many pilots had downgraded and/or were furloughed. So, a huge chunk of pilots took well more than a 30% paycut, including me (100%).
Then I took a job at a United Express carrier in the spring of 2003 making just 14% of what I was making at United in December of 2002, just 4 months earlier.
It's good to see that contracts are trending northward once again, but we are still short of UAL C2000 in many areas.
GP