Originally Posted by
Macjet
NetJets has to remain cost competitive against every 135/91k with a Citation/Lear Jet/GulfStream. They can't pay $250k a year to an XL Captain when every operator down the street is paying $85k and expect to remain in business.
My A321 has about $21K in revenue per hour. A Citation is about $3? Do the math. NJA can't pay me what I make and turn a profit. Smaller airplanes equal less $$. It isn't a Richard measuring contest. It's strictly economics.
Your 321 does not make the bulk of its money on management fees. Ours make no small sum in those. Of course this is also dependent on the 135 card holder vs a 91K "real" owner. Lots of variables, but comparing your Airbus to a bizjet for financial analytics is really not a road you want to try to lecture anyone on, though I do agree with you that $250K for a 7/7 bizjet pilot is a tall order. Some of our guys seem to forget that to even dream of that kind of money, a company needs to generate a successful business model and that means keeping some of the money in their company coffers. I'm more of a "better scheduling, more safety" kind of guy than a money chaser.