Originally Posted by
Gchamp3
The job does not require a degree because the job requires neither excessive skills nor education.
Being an airline pilot is not that difficult relative to other professions, so it doesn't have difficult entry requirements. Subsequently, it does not pay as well as more skilled professions.
Throw in the extra fact that pay is irrelevant to most entry level pilots if the airplane is big enough or has the right kind of engines.
It is a very long road from PPL to 777 CA. The time it takes to get there can be 20 years if you are lucky or never if you are just an average airline pilot. Medicals, furloughs, career jeopardy do multiple factors does not make this job easy. Day to day line flying can be mind numbing but throw in a couple geese on departure and this job becomes really hard and that is what they should be paying you for. Pilots earn their pay when sh@t hits the fan not for straight in visual approach backed up with an ILS. Besides being a bus driver is easier than being a pilot and yet their pay is better...
Pilots in the USA should stop justifying their low pay and should start demanding a little more just their counterparts overseas do. Was flying any harder 10 years ago when some CA's got 300k a year. What did you say about pay and difficulty level of this job back then?