Originally Posted by
Paid2fly
Here are some facts...Every Captain at this airline was once an f.o.! Some of us actually had to start in the right seat of turboprops flying up to 13 legs a day with no autopilot, and a repeater on our side for ILS's flown down to minimums. Not once as an f.o. did I ever think or say that the Captain I flew with deserved less, so that I could make more.
I have been saying that all of us deserve a better offer without trying to cut out 1/2 of the pilot group to benefit myself... Perhaps you should consider that dividing the pilot group(as in give it all to the f.o.'s and none to Captains) will only produce infighting that will not be productive in getting all of us a better overall increase!!!
I don't think the captains deserve less, but do you think they deserve a larger raise than first officers? If so, why?
Secondly, I doubt upgrade was 6 years when you were an FO, most understand the validity of "paying your dues," but these days most guys are spending longer in the right seat than the pilots of yesteryear spent at the "commuters" all together before they were on with a major. For this reason I think a more livable wage is reasonably expected.