I believe, when my Grandpa did things for TWA that were other than line duty (Manage pilot training, acceptance flight and develop training for DC-9, manage Saudi Arabian Airlines) he was paid "top line pay" - or what the most senior Captain on the biggest airplane made, plus some other incentives. He only did this in bits - the Saudi thing was two years, the Training center was 2 or 3. After his last non-line position, he went back to flying the line - mostly domestic on the DC-9 because he njoyed the airplane and slept at home most nights. I think the money he made in the non-traditional roles helped him by not giving him the need to continually bid larger equipment in out of town bases (NYC, LA).

As a follow up - any old TWA guys know what the deal with Saudi Arabian Airlines was? Seems like a lot of old mechanics and others did at least some time there.

Seems to me in large "top down" organizations like AMR, every department needs a VP. Like CF mentions in his post, our CP shares the VP title as well. Interestingly, the post holds little responsibility regarding the actual running of the AAL flight department. The equivalent position of DO, which probably holds the most relevant description of what a VP of flight responsibilities should be, is about 2 or 3 rungs down the latter. In fact, the VP of flight is just figure head, in charge of "keeping the pilots in line".

Back to the original question: an assistant chief at a local base at AAL starts at about $8250.00 every two weeks, I'm sure it only goes up from there.

That's a nice chunk of change...

The types that unfortunately don't stick around long.

The types that unfortunately, stick around too long

We have a Miami Chief Pilot that sent out a message this year that he is a "Level Eight Cheif Pilot and that is the same as a Full Bird Colonel"

Care to guess what I think of this Bozo the clown?

probably the same thing I used to think about a full bird colonel.

Of course, it's hard not to use profanity when discussing certain CP's!;)

Chief pilots are in the same bag as LCAs. That is, when someone is lobbying for the job or really wants it, that is exactly the kind of guy you don't want as a CP or LCA. It's the guys that are asked and kind of think about it and finally relent and say, "maybe I can do some good or something." Of course they never really can. But if they take the koolaid antedote, they may make it, for a year.

LOL...That was the best comeback I've seen in a long time.