Originally Posted by
TXTECHKA
Its simple really from a business owner's standpoint. My bachelor's is in economics and its not difficult to figure out that's exactly what dictates pilot hiring. Pilots are a commodity which is purchased by an airline, if pilot A will work for $19 per hour and pilot B won't work for less than $50 with everything else being basically the same who is going to get hired? The only way the industry will ever change is if pilots quit accepting this poverty wage....Period.
Yeah but the thing is that in reality, everything else is not the same. Pilot A who will take the job for $19 an hour is probably not as good a pilot as pilot B (not to mention not as smart for accepting the job for $19/hr in the first place). Maybe the airlines should find a way to measure pilot skill as a whole rather than just judging from the number of hours in a logbook.