Nevermind...............

 

You have zero understanding of this Buisness. You are calling people out, making aquizations and general assumptions about an industry and people you know ZERO about. This tells me you are nothing more than an immature child who needs to spend a little time growing up. Best of luck! If you go to lakes we WILL cross paths and I guarantee you will be easy to pick out. Speaking of which you old enough to grab a beer maybe I could give you some pointers

 

+10000000000

How many people would do it if they weren't paid at all?

Why should regional airlines not pay pilots?

Because they are stepping stones to Majors?

Why should Majors not pay pilots?

Because they are stepping stones to UPS and FedEx?

Why should UPS and FedEx not pay pilots?

Because they are stepping stones to cushy FAA jobs?

If you just think of an airline job as a "stepping stone", how can you say that anything else isn't? Why should any other echelon in this ladder pay you any more? You rationalize it and they take advantage of that...

 

Good luck with the Sr VP, Ops.

From yours trully,

the NK dudes.

 

I like flying airplanes. I would fly for free. I expect ALOT of money for being away from home 18 days a month including weekends and holidays, for eating lousy food most of the time, for listening to the people in the hotel room next to me s-r-w-ng for two hours straight, for dealing with scheduling, for two leg commuting to work and home, for staying in crowded crashpads, for going through security and dealing with the smurfs, for waking up at 4:15 am tomorrow and staying up til 2 am the next night, for studying for PCs...the list goes on. I'll sit in my fancy jet for free. For the rest...I deserve a boatload of money. Anybody who would do that for free is an idiot and doesn't know his own worth let alone anything about this industry. Considering what we get paid, I'll b---- all I want about the lack of pay. We all earn the right to b----- all day and all night about the lousy pay.

 

Spot. On. Well put

 

We will never be able to convince a "I would do it for nothing" guy how wrong he is. Until he experiences getting extended trip after trip, missing his commute home, spending a grand total of four 30 hour stints at home per month, and doing seven legs with 20 minute turns, the wide-eyed pie-in-the-sky CFI won't get what a grueling life being a regional pilot is.

 

Go back to your students.....and stay there.
Not that you have much chance of doing anything else in this industry.

 

Still laughing, this is a good one...

 

Darn late night I-pad posts ...