Originally Posted by
TommyDevito
First, define "industry standard".
All jobs depend upon two factors, supply and demand. And this is what sets the pay for these jobs. If you have pilots who are willing to work for these wages that satisfies the supply portion for the company, hence no need to raise wages when the resources are available.
Start reducing the supply, pilots not applying and pilots leaving for better paying jobs, then the demand kicks in to increase wages to counter the diminishing supply.
However, in the history of US air carriers this simple concept is still hard for many to comprehend.
No need to define it. The work has already been done. Multiple pilot unions have published Contract Comparisons for the last few years now. When you take emotion and opinion out of the equations, the standards speak for themselves when they are plotted out in chart form. Now, getting pilots who all think they know more than the next guy to actually look at these charts, let alone study them, well, that is another challenge altogether.