Originally Posted by
Mesabah
What never seems to get discussed here or anywhere, is it is probably impossible to raise FO pay to a livable wage. Why....because the majority of the pilot group has to vote in favor of it. The company can provide addition capital to the pilot group, however the pilot group has to agree on how that money is distributed....the senior pilots would get the majority of that income. Does any airline have the capital to give 100% across the board raises to all of the pilot group just to bring FO's up to a livable wage?
Unless the government gives an executive order to raise the pay outside of company and union control, it isn't going to happen.
You're a Captain? No offense, but that dribble sounded like something a first year FO would say.
You really don't think that if a company had XX dollars to give to the pilot group, they couldn't simply tag it with a qualifier that xx percentage must go to FO pay or the money is not available for anybody.
ANYTHING can be done if people want it to be done.