Originally Posted by
pilot124
Up front with me is Max the First officer. He makes about 23K a year, owes about 100K, is under appreciated, under paid, over worked, under represented, doesn't know what day of the week it is, hasn't seen his family in weeks, lives on water and snack boxes, and loves run on sentences. After Max does the walk around to wake up he will be flying you to PHL so he can hurry off the plane to try to catch his flight home to Denver to wash his clothes and be back the next day to do it all over again. In the meantime sit back, relax and enjoy the flight.
That will get peoples attention.
Regional FO's make 23k now, damn! When I started in 97 I made $10.60/hr. That would have turned out to about $10,200/yr., but oops, I got furloughed. I had no idea ALpo has raised the bar that much. Good to know my dues are really helping out! Keep "taking it back".