How much should a pilot be paid? Pt. II
01-11-2006, 05:49 AM
#141
done, gone skiing
Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Rocking chair
Posts: 1,601
Originally Posted by SkyHigh
These lame excuses have been handed down for decades and they don't hold water. Sooner or later the equalizer of capitalism will come to cargo. Perhaps a foreign competitor will arrive with cheaper planes and crews and undercut UPS's and FedEx's bloated union bottom line. Whatever it is this imbalance will not last long.
SKyHigh
SKyHigh
01-11-2006, 06:30 AM
#142
Self Employed.
Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Corporate Pilot
Posts: 7,119
Mexican contractors
Originally Posted by dckozak
What I think will be great is when a Mexican contractor comes into SkyHigh's neighborhood offering to do the complete job, not just working for "da man" and under bids Skyhigh and his over priced contract cronies, than we can all have a laugh and enjoy the benefits of cheap global labor
I work with those fine people everyday. I am in fact learning Spanish for the future. My hopes are that they will be able to produce the same product for less. You are right about change. In life one either has to adjust to changes or be destroyed by them. Just ask UAL DAL and NWA. Thanks to my aviation career I have had to deal with a lot of changes in my life. Maybe you guys will be able to save yourselves before it is too late.
SkyHigh
Last edited by SkyHigh; 01-11-2006 at 06:41 AM.
01-11-2006, 06:51 AM
#143
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2005
Posts: 2,002
Originally Posted by CruiseFL310
as a third year first officer i make a salary that allows me to live a decent life and i dont live in a one bedroom apartment with six other roommates.
01-11-2006, 07:00 AM
#144
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2005
Posts: 2,002
Originally Posted by CruiseFL310
face it regional pay will always be where it is but is not less at captain pay than i would make in other jobs.
01-11-2006, 07:11 AM
#145
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2005
Posts: 2,002
Originally Posted by dtwxjgirl
Aviation...its in the blood...and i love it..And for Realestate,i thought i could make extra money for all those damn bills from my first love...and it did,but Houses are not selling well at this time,but i heard 900 sex operators is the place to go now....LOL
A friend of mine said that flying would have to become his hobby and that he would have to get another full time career. I asked when he was going to quit and he said he wasn't that he was just going to get another full time job and flying for flight options would be his hobby.
When did it become acceptable to have another full time job because being a pilot didn't cover the bills?
By the way is that you KD?
01-11-2006, 07:53 AM
#146
Guest
Posts: n/a
Originally Posted by Eric Stratton
3rd yr fo what do you make 32K? I would hardly call that a decent salary. I'm curious what kind of home do you own?
when i upgrade to captain in another year or two (fingers crossed) i will make between 60k and 70k my first year as a captain. this is as much as my friends make in jobs outside of aviation.
truth is many of you like to put down pilot pay like we are making no more than the kid flipping burgers at some fast good restaurant when that is not true at all. just because pay is not as high as you all want it doesnt mean pilots dont and cant make good money even at a regional. trust me i would love to make more money but i am paid what i am paid and i can live on it fine personally. until every single pilot in the industry agrees to do something about the pay i am not going to single handedly do anything or i will just hurt myself. until then i accept my salary enjoy my job and continue to work toward my goal of flying for a major one day.
when everyone of you and your pilot friends and the rest of the pilots in the industry decide to take a stance call me and i will join you. until then well....
01-11-2006, 08:35 AM
#148
done, gone skiing
Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Rocking chair
Posts: 1,601
Originally Posted by CruiseFL310
when everyone of you and your pilot friends and the rest of the pilots in the industry decide to take a stance call me and i will join you. until then well....
01-11-2006, 08:55 AM
#149
done, gone skiing
Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Rocking chair
Posts: 1,601
Originally Posted by SkyHigh
I work with those fine people everyday. I am in fact learning Spanish for the future. My hopes are that they will be able to produce the same product for less.
Originally Posted by SkyHigh
Thanks to my aviation career I have had to deal with a lot of changes in my life. Maybe you guys will be able to save yourselves before it is too late.
SkyHigh
SkyHigh
Maybe your right about it all, maybe the future is pilots like CruiseFL310, happy as a pig in sh**, making 40k and renting. When he finally stops grinning about how great he has it and looks beyond the cockpit, I think he'll find the fairer sex is unimpressed with his W-2 and what kind of life living in a apartment will provide. Hopefully, (for her sake) she'll have a job out of aviation.
01-11-2006, 03:10 PM
#150
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2005
Position: XJT F/O
Posts: 144
No wonder you guys have problems with women, you are looking to impress them with money. I am sorry but to me that is not a wife or life partner. Someone should be with you for you not the money you make at your job. My wife and I started from nothing. We were able to buy a house and two new cars on 40k a year. Some people need to learn how to budget around here, didn't somebody teach you that. 40k may not buy a huge mansion or fancy car but it will buy a simple 3 bed 2 bath house in my neighborhood.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
