Is the new bar set too high??
 

https://onemileatatime.com/insights/pilot-pay-raises-sustainable/

Are the rates achieved by DL and likely UA and AA sustainable?

Yes

Filler

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Yes. They are sustainable.

The simple fact is that even at these rates, pilot labor costs are a fraction of the total costs associated with operating a flight on a per hour basis.

We are not overpaid.

Put 120 pax on an airplane with a 1.0 block. Pay both pilots $500/hour. $8.33 of each seat on that flight goes to paying the pilots.

Interesting how pilot wages are "unsustainable" but fleecing of the airlines via stock buybacks and bonuses is all peachy...

Nailed it.

filler…

I like how the author talks about 500K for Captains and 300K for FOs like its some new concept. Ah that’s been going on at SWA for like 10 years, and I think SWA has done ok in that time.

This has got to be a joke, right? I mean seriously….

Its whipsawing. I saw on a FA social media group of FAs losing their minds that "Greedy pilots are gonna bankrupt us!" Its just a way for corporate to pit the work groups against one another.

This is when you know this piece is bs:

“Airlines can’t just raise fares because costs go up, because they already charge as much as the market can sustain.”