Originally Posted by
gsphuntr
Including PER DIEM and "aggressive" pick up to brag about clearing 65k...ha, now that's funny. So, what you are really saying is the average FO who just fly's their line should clear around 50k a year as second in command of a 50 million dollar jet with 80 lives on board - roughly what a server or bartender at Applebee's makes.. your pay is garbage, and y'all voted in another 1 percent a year for 5 years when the ball was clearly in your court. And once again, other carriers are drastically raising the bar and SKYW management and the student council will surely run to the table in 12-18mos to coat tail... Some things never change...
This is regionals. Yes, other CARRIERS are raising the bar, but that's because those CARRIERS cannot hire pilots. Has nothing to do with the pilot groups, the best any pilot group can do is try to coerce the company into sharing with the old-hires a bit of the largess they're throwing at the new-hires.