Originally Posted by
gringo
Correct. And I don’t think anyone was implying that. In my first reply I even specified a few key areas to live in, and Billings Montana would be tough...
Luck indeed does play into it, but at this point, it seems anyone within a three hour drive to any of our popular destinations would have luck stacked in their favor...
Is this sustainable? I don’t know. We’re finally hiring and upgrading the way we should have been for a while.
But even if all the premium trips dry up, 100 hours a month in credit is fairly easy to accomplish, if one so chose to do so...
Bottom line is the guy on 5th year Capt pay making more than 250k (W2 wages only) is an outlier. You have to be working your arse off and getting lucky. He was talking to a guy interested in Spirit and making it sound normal, which it’s not. Every airline has the guys who have great gigs (instructors, in base and slobber all the open time, etc). Bottom line is they are outliers. The way you calculate expected pay is take the hourly rate and times it by 1000. To do more than that you will have to work extra period!