Originally Posted by
NYC Pilot
Especially when we got suckered into taking huge paycuts Post 9/11 that lasted until the last decade. Meanwhile, the world kept earning their high salaries and getting ahead. I remember not being able to afford a burger in an airport terminal on my regional salary during those years while flying multi million dollar RJs carrying 50 lives at a time. The wages we were paid were purely criminal.
Yup. 18K to haul around 50 pax in a 20 million dollar jet. Those were the days 🤦♂️