Who is the Real Bottom Feeder?
12-12-2008 | 03:25 AM
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Who is the Real Bottom Feeder?
A recent post in another thread was especially angry. It suggested that Mesa pilots are single-handedly dragging down all pilots and should resign. I did a comparison of the Mesa and American Eagle pay scales to see what the cumulative earning would be of a pilot spending ten years at each company. I assumed an 8 year upgrade at AE, and a three year upgrade at Mesa. I used only jet pay scales.
Total Ten Year Earnings: AE $435,000 Mesa $561,000
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Total Ten Year Earnings: AE $435,000 Mesa $561,000
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12-12-2008 | 04:01 AM
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Wow. It's pretty sad that a Mesa captain doesnt get paid much more than a FO at American Eagle over the same period of time, especially with all that abuse the Mesa pilot receives. You just made Mesa sound even more like a bottom feeder to me.
12-12-2008 | 04:02 AM
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A recent post in another thread was especially angry. It suggested that Mesa pilots are single-handedly dragging down all pilots and should resign. I did a comparison of the Mesa and American Eagle pay scales to see what the cumulative earning would be of a pilot spending ten years at each company. I assumed an 8 year upgrade at AE, and a three year upgrade at Mesa. I used only jet pay scales.
Total Ten Year Earnings: AE $435,000 Mesa $561,000
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Total Ten Year Earnings: AE $435,000 Mesa $561,000
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12-12-2008 | 07:02 AM
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Do you not comprehend how improved work rules will raise the compensation of Mesa pilots via "soft pay"?
12-12-2008 | 07:09 AM
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A recent post in another thread was especially angry. It suggested that Mesa pilots are single-handedly dragging down all pilots and should resign. I did a comparison of the Mesa and American Eagle pay scales to see what the cumulative earning would be of a pilot spending ten years at each company. I assumed an 8 year upgrade at AE, and a three year upgrade at Mesa. I used only jet pay scales.
Total Ten Year Earnings: AE $435,000 Mesa $561,000
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Total Ten Year Earnings: AE $435,000 Mesa $561,000
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AE: $435,000 Mesa:$0
You cant get paid when your company is ran into the groud.
12-12-2008 | 07:20 AM
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Yeah, I agree. To me, anyone who willingly goes to work for a company that blatantly abuses pilots (or is largely considered to be the worst) is a bottom feeder, or working for a "bottom feeder". That being said, some people who work for mesa started there without the relavant info. That only makes them ignorant. Course there isn't much of an excuse for continuing to work there. Not trying to bash anyone. Now isn't the time to be trying to find a new job. But it really sucks to perpetuate the problem.
12-12-2008 | 07:40 AM
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I don't care who a guy works for it's really quite childish all the bottom feeder this and bottom feeder that on these forums. What other industries are like this? Ofttimes as pilots we act like a bunch of hyena's fighting over scraps that the lions left behind seriously wake up people. Until everyone is united then "the market will bare what the market can bear."
Final thought has anyone ever thought maybe alpa prefers to have lower paid regionals. Thinking that somehow it allows the legacy guys to get paid more off the backs of the RJ drivers.
Final thought has anyone ever thought maybe alpa prefers to have lower paid regionals. Thinking that somehow it allows the legacy guys to get paid more off the backs of the RJ drivers.
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