Originally Posted by
seafeye
So you don't get 17 days off. You get your 10 plus you are on reserve right? So they don't use you those 7 other days. Those aren't days off.
BTW i would love to fly a 330 but i wouldn't fly it for what i am making now. What you have to understand is that Airline Management are preditors. They look for your weakness and jump on it.
You like your job so much that you will do it for poverty pay. Managment knows this and take advantage of it. But it doesn't have to be this way. You can like your job, be good at it and get paid well for it.
It can be a win-win for your passengers you and management. But managements greed is taking away your comfortable retirement. If i was you i would be very very upset with that.
Haha, never sat straight reserve. I held a line right after my green line so never sat it other than getting trips pulled. Like I said, its all about timing.
Poverty pay, not quite. It all depends on your situation. I am young and single with no loans so I do just fine. Is it ridiculously low, yes, but its not going to go down.
I really feel this industry is about the situation you put yourself in and the decisions you make. Paying 100K to get in is stupid, of course it is not worth that. But if you don't pay for it, then it can be worth it as you arent paying off a student loan. If you have a family trying to live off your regional FO pay, well this may not have been a good career choice.