Originally Posted by
ClipperJet
Why stop this at the CEOs?
Under this logic, the Captain is in charge of the airplane, so why doesn't do the "honorable" thing and make no more than the jr FA on the plane?
Wait? Those with more reponsibilty are, and ought to be, better compensated. A CEO has more overall responsibilty than a CA. If a poor performing CEO should make less money than shouldn't a poorly peforming Captain make less money too?
Ehhhhh, not quite. It's not about responsibility
on paper in this context, it's about job
performance. A captain who massively screws up and crashes a plane (we'll assume everyone got out ok) will get fired, probably along with the FO. And then he'll be at burger king making those junior FA wages you mentioned.