Originally Posted by Shootinstr8

Ok...Ok I'm bored and had my calculator near and decided to work through some basic numbers. Lets say you (the company of your choice) added $.25 per seat per hour of flight to offset cost, ie pilot pay increase. If you were on a 737-800 doing a 4 hr trip the cost to the revenue PAX would be $1.00 For your 189 seat aircraft that would be $189@ 80% load factor= $151.2
Same situation but using a 50 seat RJ would be 2 flight hours or $.25 would be $.50 per seat or $25. At 80% load factor, that would work out to be $37.80/hr on the 737 and $20.00/hr on the RJ. That seemingly small increase in ticket price would yield (split evenly) approximately $19/hr and $10/hr increase in pay for the 737 and RJ pilots respectively. I do not even think the paying public would notice a $.25 per flight hour increase in cost nor do I think its unreasonable. This would give the pilot a much deserved raise and would not set back gains made post 9-11. Tell me what you think.