Or so says Jack Fitzgerald of Florida Aviation Academy Partners With ExpressJet Airline in Pilot Pathway Interview Program | FLAviationAcademy.com
Good news everyone!

Perhaps this post should be moved to Tool of the Day.

 

We can only hope...

 

I'll believe that when me sheit turns purple and tastes like rainbow sherbet.

 

Double in 5 year? Heh? First year regional pay needs to triple NOW! Usual "shortage talk" with the familiar "there has never been a better time to become a Commercial Pilot".

 

All the negative press with the low wages has hit mainstream when they post crap like this.
PSA just signed a 10 year pay freeze. Did they mention that?

 

5 years from now my pay will be double... AKA $4/hr LESS than it was 5 years ago...

 

Pilot mills are feeling the squeeze. Nobody wants to sign up to pay $200k to get their pilots licenses anymore. So they put out stuff like this to try to get applicants. Its a bunch of BS.

The good news is that if pay doubled at the regionals, it would destroy their business models and put them all under. The only financially viable method for the flying to be done would be less flights with bigger jets being flown by mainline pilots. So, bring it on.

 

I know there are plenty of people who love to dump on any good news, and that's not my intention. You have to consider the source of this article, however---a flight school and a poorly faring regional airline losing pilots. What do they have to gain by making this claim?

The flight school gets students and the regional gets to continue the carrot scam approach to recruit new hires, by claiming things will get better in the future, so just accept poor pay and treatment now for a better future tomorrow. Most pilots are realizing, that sustaining regional airlines through concessions just ensures the continuation of a failing model of mistreatment, poor service, poor mgmt., and poor compensation.

This sales pitch is just new words to the same old tune. Kit Darby has been spouting the same line for years. They are hoping you'll believe this to lure you into their failed model of mismanagement sustained on the backs of employees through fraud and lies. This fight ain't near enough over yet.

 

Its doubled at Expressjet for the last four months. I've been making 183 an hour on and off quite a bit. Well, I guess if you average it out it only went up by 50% to be honest.

 

So you can take your facts from this used pilot license dealer OR you can take your facts from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics which claims otherwise: