Originally Posted by
CaptainTeezy
I hate to say this because people get all emotionally unstable...brand new FOs are not worth more than what the company is paying them...it is called capitalism. Here is the deal... guys with 250 hours were going straight to the airlines with NO CFI experience, NO commercial experience, NO PIC experience. NO EXPERIENCE at all. They are unproven and untested in making their own decisions. You cant emulate leadership...IE watching the Captain. for 1,000 hours and then expect to be a capable leader when the Shizzle begins to Fizzle.
Now if you get guys with 135 experience and ATP mins and maybe around 500 ME PIC...then yeah...he is worth more...I would say easily 30k first year.
But it would be wrong to pay someone who is untested and unproven 30k plus the first year...so those with experience either go somewhere else or they have to suck up low pay.
My opinion...you shouldnt be allowed to be a 121 FO unless you have 900 hours. 1500=ATP 1200=135 and 900=121 FO.
Crazy talk! I left a truck driving job, where I was home every day at 4pm and was making $60K to come to a regional and make $18K. Yes, it was by choice, but since when should anyone with up to 76 lives in their hands make $18K a year? When I came to the airlines, I had 2200 hours, many of which were Part 135 cargo in the Northeast, at night. So, should I have made more than other FO's without that experience? Yes! But then, if you are a union, you work for the same wages as everyone else with the same seniority. You have to admit, $346 a week to fly a plane ($18K a year)is insane! That is a $8.65 an hour, 40 hour week job!! Can you say "Would you like fries with that?"