And the Russian judge gives him a 9.4
When I got hired at FedEx I was told "we're hiring Captains, not FO's" Unfortunately, due to a myriad of issues, not the least of which is the age old "QOL", there are a lot of guys who are happy just to jerk gear and fly every other leg from the right seat even though they could hold Captain long ago. They are usually the first one's to start talking about jacking up the pay rates. They are making 150K a year for sitting in the right seat of an MD or Airbus flying back and forth to OKC! Kind of like the PGA where a guy can make 1.5 mil a year and never finish higher that 10th in any tournament he plays in. Maybe we need something like the Olympic gymnastics. A level of difficulty. If you fly back and forth between Mem and OKC in the afternoon you get a level of did of 1. If you do 2 legs to GJT and COS in the middle of the night you get a LOD of 1.4.
Or maybe if you pass up the Left seat, you get one free bid and then the next time you pass it your pay is frozen at that level until you upgrade. Thoughts......