Originally Posted by
spottedcow
Put 120 pax on an airplane with a 1.0 block. Pay both pilots $500/hour. $8.33 of each seat on that flight goes to paying the pilots.
Not arguing for lower pay… but there are a lot more costs than block for pilots on a flight.
Pilots have to be trained and vacationed and deadheaded and held in reserve. There’s some non-trivial multiplier between wages per pilot per hour and average airline pilot spending per hour flown