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Old 01-26-2008 | 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by AirWillie
Congratulations, you still make 19 per hour and as much as a elementary school busdriver that took a 2 week course on driving a bus. Point is that we should be raising our pay. 1st year pay at a regional should be at least 40 and captain 80. It's still hard for people to comprehend when I tell them that airline pilots make equivalent to minimum wage starting out.
ditto

Don't see why one should have to take a pay cut when you leave a good CFI job to go to a regional. It makes no sense whatsoever. $40 an hour seems like a perfectly reasonable first year pay.
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