Originally Posted by
MCDUmanipulator
So many pilots are so focused on hourly rate and nothing else. We better not sacrifice any of our current QOL for anything. Everyone loves more money but not at the cost of our industry leading QOL
I dunno man. I have friends at pretty much every other airline, and as far as the big 3, Fed Ex and UPS, Frontier, Alaska, and Jetblue I don't see much of a difference in their quality of life and mine. My best friend is a UAL 320 captain and he took the whole month of July off. And except for Frontier, they are all making more money than me (although the PHL based guys I met the other day on a jumpseat said that everyone is crediting over 100 hours if they want to, so even Frontier is making more). Wide body FOs at the legacies are making more than me as a captain here. I don't think it should be that way.
My point is we really need a raise.