Originally Posted by Squirrel27

Even wide body captains don't make $30k a month.

Even if they did, your claim has a lot of IFs in it. IF they don't lose their medical. IF they make it to American. IF they get a captain upgrade on a wide body. IF there isn't a global recession that prevents all of that. IF we aren't flying single pilot when we retire.

IFs don't pay the bills.