Airline Pay cuts driving away best pilots

[aircowboy]

Entry level Cop with GED is 84000 in most areas of California now.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

That is my point.

A good friend of mine who is a CEO of a very large corporation told me that with what I am responsible I should make about 175K min with a 40% incentive bonus a year. A CA would be making over 500K

 

[lookin4better]

That's no joke... the MPL must be stopped at all costs.

 

[BeachBummer]

That's no joke... the MPL must be stopped at all costs.

Refuse to fly with them, they pose a direct threat to safety! God help us all if this goes through, I'll buy an RV.

 

[zman]

It will until 2012. Then everyone will be in deep doo doo. The airline's answer to this is a MPL (Multi Pilot License) That just lowers the bar and confirms what Sully's fears our.
We as a collective group need to fight for this never to happen in the US. It is in essence a Captain flight instructing full time.

Sad thing is you ask most pilots you fly with about the Multi Pilot license and they literally have no idea. I had an FAA guy tell me that one day your FO on a major will only have 50 hours of flying experience sitting next to you in a Boeing or Airbus.

http://www.atwonline.com/channels/safetySecurity/article.html?articleID=1428

 

[Lear70]

Still way too many 20-something CFI's chasing the dream. 80k? 60k? Sounds great when you're living in your parents' basement making two grand a month.

I didn't know you knew InstructorDude that well...



p.s. Thank you Sully for at least making that a salient point during your testimony. I'm sure it'll get swept under the rug, and we all here can tell each other what we need to make, but it matters SQUAT until it's important enough to require legislation or it causes financial discomfort for airline management.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

I would hope that no airline would hire someone that would pose that sort of liability. As an IRO is one thing, as a five leg a day domestic pilot is another.

 

[contrail67]

Entry level Cop with GED is 84000 in most areas of California now.

Its California....COLA.

 

[Question4U]

Yeah but the trash man doesn't have an office with a view like ours.

Look at the tools picture this quote fits him. He just happy he can fly. So what if daddy has to give him money

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Yeah but the trash man doesn't have an office with a view like ours.

Or the responsibility. You are selling yourself and skill set out. Do you really have that little self worth?