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Old 02-05-2009 | 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by boilerpilot
If you take the 100k or so of intangible costs (so training, the airline's insurance against you messing up, etc) off the FO and CA, that number drops to about 3.1% or about $9.77 per ticket. Because tickets are generally the only income source for airlines, simple logic allows us to say that the TOTAL cost for the pilots of a legacy/major is about 4.4%. The regionals are even worse at around 3.4% and 2% for their respective percentages.

Shocking. Isn't it.
Shocking? I would say pathetic. How about we get paid the same as a Denny's hostess. Minimum wage + 10-15% tip of the total bill. Nope I guess our training, skill, and experience is valued less than a waitress as a percentage of revenue generated.

Remember the baseball strike of 1994? Remember what the primary point was that blew the whole season? They wanted to impose a salary cap that limited the players to no more than 51% of the revenue a team generated. Must be nice to get half of the money you generate as pay, but no that was not enough. I guess since the taxpayers buy them their stadiums it leaves a whole lot more money to fight over when it comes time to pay salaries. Perhaps if we got free airports, terminals, office buildings, aircraft, etc all paid for by taxing OTHER industries not our own there would be a whole lot more money for salaries.

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