Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3434329)

You are probably comparing straight hourly wages without any consideration toward soft money generated by all the work rule changes. A widebody CA in 1980 earning 120,000 a year would need to make 420,000 a year now. That’s easily done at Delta and I suspect American and United. In fact at Delta that’s probably well below the average Widebody CA pay. It’s not difficult to crack 600,000 and some pilots have exceeded 900,000 in a year. If you compare it to 2019 when the current round of contracts got put on ice by covid we were solidly ahead of inflation.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3434329)

You are probably comparing straight hourly wages without any consideration toward soft money generated by all the work rule changes. A widebody CA in 1980 earning 120,000 a year would need to make 420,000 a year now. That’s easily done at Delta and I suspect American and United. In fact at Delta that’s probably well below the average Widebody CA pay. It’s not difficult to crack 600,000 and some pilots have exceeded 900,000 in a year. If you compare it to 2019 when the current round of contracts got put on ice by covid we were solidly ahead of inflation.

Originally Posted by Gone Flying (Post 3434492)

i know you are a WB CA at DL and would know more about it than me, but I was under the impression WB CAs pulling more than 450-500k/year was a fluke related to the decision regarding staffing the A350 in 2018 and early 2019, not something that regularly happens.

Originally Posted by Gone Flying (Post 3434492)

i know you are a WB CA at DL and would know more about it than me, but I was under the impression WB CAs pulling more than 450-500k/year was a fluke related to the decision regarding staffing the A350 in 2018 and early 2019, not something that regularly happens.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3434551)

I know lots of guys who broke 600K on the 330. Some quite junior. People forget all the times they get extra pay for reroute, DC excess, purchased trips, training, vacation, profit sharing and a overtime trip now and then. The pilots breaking 900k were because of the 350 issues.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3434329)

You are probably comparing straight hourly wages without any consideration toward soft money generated by all the work rule changes. A widebody CA in 1980 earning 120,000 a year would need to make 420,000 a year now. That’s easily done at Delta and I suspect American and United. In fact at Delta that’s probably well below the average Widebody CA pay. It’s not difficult to crack 600,000 and some pilots have exceeded 900,000 in a year. If you compare it to 2019 when the current round of contracts got put on ice by covid we were solidly ahead of inflation.

Originally Posted by SonicFlyer (Post 3434261)

So you're saying the unions are impotent?

Originally Posted by Margaritaville (Post 3434653)

BS flag raised.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3434551)

I know lots of guys who broke 600K on the 330. Some quite junior. People forget all the times they get extra pay for reroute, DC excess, purchased trips, training, vacation, profit sharing and a overtime trip now and then. The pilots breaking 900k were because of the 350 issues.

Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 3434665)

No, I know people doing it.