Originally Posted by
STILL GROUNDED
Not to start something here but who do you figure works harder here. The guy walking down the jet way or the one standing at the bottom of the steps in the snow guarding the prop.
The one turning the auto pilot on and reading the sports page or the one hand flying the airplane to minimums in 40 knot gusts at an uncontrolled un plowed field in the middle of East Bum****** KS, NY, PA pick a state.
I agree its all BS. Frankly a guy flying a Aerostar single pilot IFR should be making $300/hr and the 747 guy with the 2 other crew members ought to be making the $200.00 a day.
my $.02
In the transportation industry, It's not usually the difficulty of the job that determines the pay, but the value of the goods transported. You get paid a percentage of value...this is traditional and goes back to beginnings of history.
A 747 on a NAT run generates in the neighborhood of $1 million in revenue...in light of that it is not unreasonable to pay the captain a couple grand to get the job done.
Lawyers get 30%, a guy who runs a big factory gets 7 figures, why should pilots work for a flat rate?