Originally Posted by
insanelyradical
Thanks for the info! I hope to never share a cockpit with a negetive nancy like yourself. I hope your quest for higher wages and better work rules works out well for you, but there is always someone to take lower wages and crappier work rules then yourself. I am trying to avoid the regional arena all together if possible, but thanks for your contribution to your own stated problem. We all appreciate you willingness to work in your self described horrible conditions for extremely meager compensation. Maybe someday you can start your own airline and pay pilots 50 times what they are willing to work for! You will be a hero!
You do not know me, or how I am to fly with so save the name calling for your friends/kids/wife. I do however, see things as they are, and unlike you refuse to act as an advocate for the crap the regionals are filled with just because I love to fly.
I researched long and hard what I was getting myself into, and from the very beginning was not planning on spending my career flying in the U.S for crap wages, and my quest has only begun. If I was not in need of money as much as I am now, I would be a little more content.. at least for the time being. No where in the world is this industry perfect, but I think it is safe to say that the U.S is a bar-lowering nation as far as T&Cs and pay goes at the airlines.
And if I was to start an airline, I would lease a few A380s, put the captain requirements at 2000TT 500PIC, pay them 60,000$ a year.
For F/O it would be 250 and a multi-commercial, and put the starting pay at 15,000$ per year.
Then like all management, I would laugh at all the suckers whoring themselves because they finally get to fly a big jet. I know I would have no shortage of applicants.
I'm not saying don't do it. But don't sit there and say that everything is OK the way it is and isnt that bad, because that just makes you look like a fool.
My biggest gripe is the money because at the moment it is preventing me from further bettering my life. It would be one thing if we didnt deserve more, but I believe it is scandalous to be accepting these wages for what we do.