Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Pilots in India are some of the most highly salaried employees. A captain for IndiGo pulls down as much as 8.5 MILLION rupees a year. At today’s conversion factor of
0.013266823 United States Dollars to the rupee that’s $112,768 a year. Given that it’s the same aircraft burning the same &UAL, it’s obvious where the profit is coming from. Personnel costs.
Everybody is doing it.
One way, I suppose, of coping with the US pilot shortage.
110k in India is like 110 million in the US.
I'm not sure how they can survive paying those salaries. It's more than legacy airline CAs in Europe, where cost of living is much higher.