Originally Posted by Uncle Bose
In most fields, a qualified individual can leave a firm and expect the same or higher compensation with a new firm. Airline pilot salaries are seniority-based within each company, so leaving one company means an automatic reduction in pay to the lowest level in the new company, and a number of years must be spent climbing the ladder all over again, still with the danger of furloughs/bankruptcies/buyouts.
Then there's that! Which is unfortunate!
It should be a fixed rate, $90 K to start