Originally Posted by flyguy81

You can be the highest hourly paid pilot and still make less in career compensation because we don’t have upgrades offered to people walking in the door. We would have to have upgrade time drop a lot and get 777 pay right out the gate to be close and that’s just not going to happen….thats like FA’s wanting pilot pay to pour a can of water. If we close the gap significantly, that’ll do a lot to get people to think twice about jumping for a quick buck.

It’s near impossible to determine career earnings since this industry is so cyclical. You can go best case scenario for upgrade by type but that’s not a fits all sizes number because some people will bypass upgrade, refuse WB, work guarantee vs hustle for QOL reasons. I’m not even sure ALPA knows what the avg career earnings are….in my 23 yrs we’ve had 9/11, Ch. 11’s, Age-65, Covid, etc….none of which can be predicted ahead of time. We can agree to 777 pay and it mean nothing if we keep losing $1b every meltdown.