Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You are probably comparing straight hourly wages without any consideration toward soft money generated by all the work rule changes. A widebody CA in 1980 earning 120,000 a year would need to make 420,000 a year now. That’s easily done at Delta and I suspect American and United. In fact at Delta that’s probably well below the average Widebody CA pay. It’s not difficult to crack 600,000 and some pilots have exceeded 900,000 in a year. If you compare it to 2019 when the current round of contracts got put on ice by covid we were solidly ahead of inflation.
i know you are a WB CA at DL and would know more about it than me, but I was under the impression WB CAs pulling more than 450-500k/year was a fluke related to the decision regarding staffing the A350 in 2018 and early 2019, not something that regularly happens.