Originally Posted by IntheBiz

I am amazed at you arguing over this. Right now, there are even medical jobs being outsourced. New hospitals to cater to expensive operations are being done in India and Singapore by GREAT doctors. So even the doctors here face outsourcing.

At this moment I work on projects that include CPDLC where I send mesages and commands through the ACARS to the FMC, soon I will be able to also track it cheaply through ADS-B. You think its a real leap to remove pilots from airplanes altogether?

I mean really? 224,000 a yr? And some of you are complaining?
Get real, at the end of the day you dont REALLY need a degree to fly, just be able TO fly. Granted your skills are hard fought and won, but damn, just look at the delat guys. You think that they wont jump over you to get back to the salaries they think deserve? Guys, while i may not be a COMMERCIAL pilot, I did spend years riding around in the cockpit of a DC-10 or 757 or 727 for weeks straight, and actually having the cojones to balk at those kinds of pay rates?
Sure I'll get flamed, but if you cant live on 225,000 dollars a year then maybe you should do something else. Oh thats right, nothing else pays half, nay, 1/4 of what they are offering with your 4 year English degrees.
Help America and the profession out and take the damn offer, or at some point, someone might get the idea to start a crewing company full of Europeans and Asians to fly the Browntails. Thats what Atlas did (not that I agree with it, but why let it get that far?)