Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
Why would they pay any more money when classes are full every time they advertise for pilots? They should pay less.
What's to "man up"? Give away money? No, they're not going to do that. Airlines aren't going to fold because they paid the pilots too little.
Pilots get paid too little because they accept too little. There are too many pilots. While that may not be the case at some point in the future, as soon as there was any shortage of cheap pilots, they could double the pay (that won't happen) and it would still be cheap to hire $35,000/yr pilots instead of $17,500/yr.
You'd have guys frothing at the mouth to get out of their C172 CFI job (after the 1500 hours, of course) to sign up.
I'm moving this to the hangar talk forum.
Tony
"Pilots get paid too little because they accept too little."
Wrong.
If that were true Spirit, JetBlue, Allegiant, and Hawaiian would not have gotten a raise. Why didn't the airline just say no and replace them? The regionals need to stand ground and it needs to happen now. Team up with the majors and demand tighter scope so there can be leverage for more money.
Pay was low because everyone thought they were moving on. Well for many the regional level is a career. Pilots need to fight for proper pay right now.