Originally Posted by
BlaineFaban
You could probably say the same of you, oh CRJ900 captain. That's about the time you guys start to get arrogant--making captain on a CRJ. That brings up a whole other point: leaving the country--malaria and the various bugs which can get you out 'chonder. Yet another reason to demonstrate how the jobs are different, and thus higher compensation on the widebody.
The 63 year old will learn the saab much faster than the 22 year old will learn the mass management, worldwide ops, language tricks, weather phenomena, topography, metrics of the 777/767/A330.
We can play the bigger schwartz contest all day, and you'll lose. You've already missed the point, so why bother?
Different mission, different training. You really think the Legacy wide-body flight crews are the best pilots of the entire airline, give me a break. They had senority to hold the position and went through the training for it. Don't sit here and tell me one leg a day is harder than 7, I don't care if you have to find your position using cellestial navigation, one leg is easier than 6-7 a day. Your problem is that you think your crap doesn't stink and you deserve to be called the better pilot cause you sit in front of a bigger plane. If you want to justify higher pay, stop whining to us, you are preaching to the choir. If your life is so hard, why don't you bid back to a smaller plane, or if you can't, why don't you take a posh CRJ-900 job, I'm sure Go-Jets would love to have a guy like you.