Who are these guys and who is funding them?
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Every time I see this thread I open it expecting it to be a rant about millennial 0-experience, 141-graduate new hires and have been disappointed every day when I open the thread...for what it’s worth.
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I would much rather be in a 175 for MSN to SFO in a window or aisle seat than stuck in a 737 in the center seat.
Had a pax ask if we could get a bigger plane from LGA to CLT and I asked if he would prefer a center seat instead of his window seat. He didn't understand what a center seat was until I explained he'd have another passenger on each side of him fighting for the arm rest. Shut him up real quick.
Had a pax ask if we could get a bigger plane from LGA to CLT and I asked if he would prefer a center seat instead of his window seat. He didn't understand what a center seat was until I explained he'd have another passenger on each side of him fighting for the arm rest. Shut him up real quick.
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That's why I dumped cable, I only have Internet TV now and love it.
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And those people who say that a 175 can't be operated with pilots paid on a mainline scale... please realize that on most flights it would only take about $5 per passenger to get the pilots up to mainline scales if the cost was entirely passed on to the passengers.
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This cannot be repeated enough.
And those people who say that a 175 can't be operated with pilots paid on a mainline scale... please realize that on most flights it would only take about $5 per passenger to get the pilots up to mainline scales if the cost was entirely passed on to the passengers.
And those people who say that a 175 can't be operated with pilots paid on a mainline scale... please realize that on most flights it would only take about $5 per passenger to get the pilots up to mainline scales if the cost was entirely passed on to the passengers.
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I compared my pay by RPMs / hour, I was about the highest paid airline pilot in the industry.
747 CA got paid more obviously, but he flew a lot more pax, a lot more miles in that same hour. So I was getting a larger share of the revenue pie. That was of course artificial because the 747 CA gets paid what his union negotiates, while a turboprop pilot's rates are determined more by the floor of the free market.
That calculus would be more favorable for an RJ pilot because the RJ is just as fast as a narrowbody.
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I actually did the math once when I was turboprop CA (reasonably well paid by that standard).
I compared my pay by RPMs / hour, I was about the highest paid airline pilot in the industry.
747 CA got paid more obviously, but he flew a lot more pax, a lot more miles in that same hour. So I was getting a larger share of the revenue pie. That was of course artificial because the 747 CA gets paid what his union negotiates, while a turboprop pilot's rates are determined more by the floor of the free market.
That calculus would be more favorable for an RJ pilot because the RJ is just as fast as a narrowbody.
I compared my pay by RPMs / hour, I was about the highest paid airline pilot in the industry.
747 CA got paid more obviously, but he flew a lot more pax, a lot more miles in that same hour. So I was getting a larger share of the revenue pie. That was of course artificial because the 747 CA gets paid what his union negotiates, while a turboprop pilot's rates are determined more by the floor of the free market.
That calculus would be more favorable for an RJ pilot because the RJ is just as fast as a narrowbody.