Originally Posted by
tlamjaj
The thing with the widebody pay rates that nobody seems to be mentioning is that there is not a single airline in the world that has 10,000+ pilots on widebody pay rates. An airline flying only 737s is not going to be the first.
UPS?
They have 4000, not 10000, but who cares?
Attitudes like yours will be why we might not get paid according to supply and demand (capitalism!) this cycle. What happened in the past is unimportant. We will get as much as we have backbone for.
There WILL NOT BE enough pilots for several years, as stated by every major CEO. Due to only dumb luck (COVID, age 65, 9/11) for the first (and probably last) time in almost every pilot’s career we have ALL the leverage.
PLEASE stop with this ridiculous self-limiting nonsense. Let the market work as it should. CEOs would, unemotionally, cut your pay in a second if the pilot market supported it.
Now, let’s pretend we’re businessmen, not pilots, and without emotion, let’s make it work in our favor for a change.