Originally Posted by Ad Lib

Hey, $74,000 is only four thousand more than a third year pilot flying international at the US' most highly compensated passenger airline. Five Type Ratings, a Master's Degree, Professional Certification, 7,500 hours with over 5,000 121 PIC, managing billions of dollars in equipment, liability exposures and up to 262 passengers' lives, plus crew! And, we get to stay in all those nice hotels eighteen days a month and eat all the peanuts and Biscoff cookies we can steal when the lead FA isn't looking.

What's your point? Are you saying we should get paid more than a van driver with a couple thousand dollars worth of precious cargo, who's greatest risk is dodging potholes & short women driving minivans decorated with soccer balls on them?

Who wants to drive a van and be home every night when a guy could be winging his way to a malaria endemic zone while checking out the State Department's travel warnings first hand? I'm going to start wearing a CNN hat and walking around with a microphone on layovers.