Originally Posted by
Joseph
Can someone give me a ballpark figure of how high a legacy airline pilot's salary used to be pre 9/11? Will pax pilot's ever make more than cargo pilot's again?
Delta's 5/1/2004 rate was $267.52/hr for 757/767 captain ($182.72 for F/O). 777 rate was $319.61 (CA) and $218.29 (FO). (Multiply x1000 for approx. annual pay.) It'll be quite a while before we see those rates again.
If we surpass the cargo guy's pay rates, it will mostly be because of the cuts they've taken, rather than the raises we've gotten.