Originally Posted by
RedeyeAV8r
Actually most people feel the bigger the airplane the more revenue generated thus higher payrate. It doesn't always work that way...............Unfortuantely.
Good point. And one reason more revenue is generated is cuz that aircraft can fit more people on it (obviously it's not that simple...but that's part of it). My whole point is coming from how do we compare what a pilot gets paid on one aircraft to what they get paid on another. More simply...when someone complains that a company is flying 70 seat aircraft at 50 seat wages (that's a line I see a lot on here) how do you compare the two? All I'm trying to do is toss out one way you can compare it...unfortunately it doesn't work for the extremes (A380 or J32). Take it for what it's worth. I use "seats" because in the airline contracts I've seen, the pay rate is broken down by seat (32-49, 50-69, 70-87, etc.).