Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
No one is trying to lower expectations. I think I was clear in saying that there are economic conditions where C2K rates would be woefully low. I will try to demonstrate my main point by asking you a question. What if I set my bottom line contract at $5,000 per hour for DC-9 B and then appropriate changes up the line. I claim that anything less would be absolute capitulation. What would your response be to me? Justify your answer.
I would say that if you want to make that kind of money, you need to work REALLY HARD on your football skills... or maybe get your MBA and climb the corporate ladder all the way to the top in management. But for most of us... we signed up to be airline pilots. I think all most of us want is to get back to the standard of living that we reasonably expected this career to provide when we got into it in the first place. That's not going to take $5,000 per hour for a DC9B, but it is going to take some pretty large increases to our current bankruptcy/emergency pay rates. It's not rocket science to figure out what kind of percentage that might take. And it's also not rocket science to figure out that we aren't going to get anything approaching what we need if we keep making every excuse in the book as to why it can't happen.