Originally Posted by
jaxsurf
Also, it blows my mind that people who make upwards of $200k/year don’t just buy tickets. We even have a discounted option! You know what our loads are like, you’re making the conscious choice to do that to yourself.
Stop being such cheapskates. It’s pathetic and embarrassing hearing highly compensated pilots whine about nonrevving. It’s like seeing boomers scream at fast food employees for getting their order slightly wrong. Embarrassing.
A family of four who is able to make two non-rev domestic trips a year could easily save $5,000 in ticket costs that year. That’s 3.5% of his total take-home pay for the year - just on airfare.
You find it embarrassing that one would be conscious of this expenditure, and lament a degradation of their historic non-rev benefit?
Personally, I periodically shop internet rates, cell phone rates, home and auto insurance rates, pay attention to gas price differences, negotiate large purchases…all for less savings than $5,000/year. Never thought I was an embarrassing cheapskate, but I’ll take it under advisement.