Basing your lifestyle on a recent promotion at any job is a risky idea. It's even more irresponsible to do it at a regional airline, which in itself is extremely unstable. Did he really think the Socal flying was 100%?

 

This will be a interesting thread to say the least. I'm glad he had the gumption to speak out. I've seen a number of reporters and such on here trying to get a story, all they usually get is a bunch of "NO's we'll get in trouble".
The real story is not the downgrade it's the crappy FO pay. This guy is bringing it to light when no one will. We all know that downgrades and changes are part of the game but to go from a livable wage to crap(what I make now) is horrible.

 

Reality as it is. Not as it should be.

 

That is a popular quote that I have found is spoken, more often than not, by those who have been neither.

 

I cannot assign a figure to this. However, average household income across the country is around this figure, slightly less I believe.

I can say that at 28 years old, I've never earned this amount and have lived a comfortable life.

The downgrade is unfortunate for him. But, it could be so much worse and is for many many folks out there. AND, he's got a marketable skill outside aviation. All things considered, he's in pretty good shape.

Did I win the "d-bag of the thread award"?

 

Didn't he voluntarily take a $25,000 per year job a few short years ago to start him down the long and brutal path back to... RJ FO? But this is not about regional airline pay.

I'm trying to teach my children to not derive their happiness and identities from material things. Unfortunately my airline has been all too helpful in that goal by taking everything away.

 

Congrats to DO the exit polls shows you're in the lead.

 

I have three furloughs, but fortunately, just one wife who has stuck with me through them all. I'm junior at my airline, and some of the senior folks have quite illustrious resumes, with airline names that many people aren't old enough to remember. I've heard the quote from people who've earned the right to say it.

 

So I guess you're OK with a pilot making "average" household income. Hooray for you, I hope you don't have aspirations of being on the NC at ANY airline

And I'll repeat it for your, over 9 years as a 121 pilot. 3 of those years exceeded 50K, 2 at just above 20k, the others in between. I can live a life just fine on 36k a year, NEVER lived above it. I'll ask you AGAIN, what should a pilot be making?

See my first response in this post. For those like you that think it's OK for a pilot should make as much, or less than a garbage man, please, stay off your airline's NC.

Too early to tell, but you're working on it.

Hasn't EVERY pilot voluntarily taken substandard pay at one point? For many of us, the SECOND time we had to take it, it WASN'T voluntary.

Please, tell us YOUR story about how you've held the high ground and never accepted a crappy wage. Whether because you wanted to or had to. It appears you've had to suck it up yourself. I should take a similar tact with you, "Boo hoo, you've been furloughed multiple times whaaaaaaaaaa".

Amazing you can write what you have with this in mind. Please, write Sullenberger immediately. Tell him to stop mentioning pilot pay every time he publicly speaks.

 

No this is a silly piece:

PassionAviator

What Bryan Lawlor did takes a lot of nerve, I know him personally, and he stuck his neck out in an effort to educate the masses about the inadequacies of pay for pilots, and for the benefit of everyone including furloughed pilots like yourself.

What all of you should be doing is thanking him for putting his personal life out there so that folks find out what we really go through as pilots.

So I ask you, what have done lately to improve the career? Oh that's right you're leaving to be a CPA? Incidentally why did you remove the link to your blog from your signature? It's a bit hypocritical of you don't you think?