Originally Posted by
Cycle Pilot
Colgan First Year Pay ($21/hour) x 75 hours/month = $1575/month x 12 months = $18900/year divided by 52 weeks/year = $363.46/week divided by 40 hours/week = $9.09/hour! You have a seniority number at another airline. Why would you subject yourself to Colgan when you can go get a job making $9.00 per hour and be home every night? Are you really that desperate to fly a plane? Colgan is a crappy and unsafe company. Don't subject yourself to such a place when you can pay the bills other ways.
okay, lets compare ....
Delta first year pay $54 per hour x 65 hours = $3510 (according to APC). Times 12 months is $42120. Divided by 52 weeks per year is $810 per week. Divided by 40 that is a bit over $20 per hour to fly
an average of more than double the pax/miles. $20 buck an hour isnt bad, but really, for what it takes to get hired by Delta, is it that great?
I will agree with Cycle Pilot, in one respect: darn near any other industry will pay you a comparable salary (if not more) and you can be home every night.
No disrespect to Delta. Colgan is far from the Holy Grail, but given the choice of sitting reserve for Delta (and being subject to future furloughs) or being senior CA at Colgan and holding a decent line, I'll take being the big fish in the small pond.
..... But then I dont own a red tie, so I would not get hired anyway.
Readers should note that as a person in his 40s, the odds of me making CA at Delta are near zero.