Originally Posted by
saxman66
Heard a Comair pilot interviewed today on NPR. This case it was about companies looking for pay cuts or in our case downgraded captains. They mentioned Comair downgraded 150 captains. Wish they had mentioned the 330 addition furloughs, but they didn't. Trying to find a link....
....and here it is:
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120709869>
Read the comments... people are calculating his $67 to $42/hour pay cut and saying that's still a buttload of money. "Boo hoo, Mister pilot. I'd keep that job if I were you..."
Of course, they're figuring his salary based on 40 hours/week, because the article doesn't say otherwise.
Nice reporting.