To FlyDeltasJets,
I also agree that mechanics should be paid better. And since we both agree that they are as skilled and valuable to a company as pilots should we then also agree that they should also make the big bucks. Now, if a company started to pay all those who deserve the high pay do you think that company will remain financially solvent. It seems to me that there is only so much money in the pot (especially in the airline business since they all seem to be operating on tight budgets). So if one group gets the lions share then there won't be enough to pay those well deserving mechanics. In my book pilots and mechanics are equal. What is your solution?
I am amazed that there are those who would condemn me for believing that it's right to be a little more equitable within the aviation industry regarding salary. Not once have I said major pilots need to come down to the level of the 20 year old FO at the regional.
To the person who asked what's wrong with an SUV: I use the SUV as a symbol of social irresponsibility. We all know that most owners just use them to shuttle the kids to school or pick up groceries and drive to work. Even though they get terrible gas mileage, pollute our atmosphere, and increase our dependency on the middle-east we still have those that will drive them because they feel it's their right to do whatever they please. So ask that question again "what is wrong with owning as many cars, houses, etc, etc, as possible?" Well, the next time you drive through LA in the summer and see the nasty pollution ask that question again. Or the next time you drive through the Sierra Nevedas and see miles of clear cuts ask yourself where the wood is going. Or how about the next time OPEC raises gas prices, are you going to be the first to complain. We don't live in a vacuum and how we live our lives and the resources that we consume have a broader effect then our eye-sight will let us to believe. Again, I'm not saying we all need to live just above the poverty line and be grateful. Just that I think it's reasonable to believe "equity and concern" over our struggling colleagues (and our countries resources) should come first over a selfish life style. And if you still can't put 1 and 1 together, well then your childrens generation will suffer the consequence and you can go to your grave satisfied "ya did dern good fer yer country, an ya wer a good American."
I can hear the rebuttals now......."yer a traitor, yer Unamerican. Get the rope boyz...."
As for some of you who think I haven't worked hard in aviation, you obviously don't understand what the military does. I don't have a need to justify to anyone how hard I have worked, but just to inform some of those that have an attitude towards military pilots.......let's see, spent time flying missions in Bosinia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, South America, Africa and many other places living in nasty muddy dumps, eating nothing but mre's, being shot at etc, etc, etc. And I chose to to it (and would do it again). My father was career military and so I went in with eyes wide open......and never once regretted doing it.
AJ
I also agree that mechanics should be paid better. And since we both agree that they are as skilled and valuable to a company as pilots should we then also agree that they should also make the big bucks. Now, if a company started to pay all those who deserve the high pay do you think that company will remain financially solvent. It seems to me that there is only so much money in the pot (especially in the airline business since they all seem to be operating on tight budgets). So if one group gets the lions share then there won't be enough to pay those well deserving mechanics. In my book pilots and mechanics are equal. What is your solution?
I am amazed that there are those who would condemn me for believing that it's right to be a little more equitable within the aviation industry regarding salary. Not once have I said major pilots need to come down to the level of the 20 year old FO at the regional.
To the person who asked what's wrong with an SUV: I use the SUV as a symbol of social irresponsibility. We all know that most owners just use them to shuttle the kids to school or pick up groceries and drive to work. Even though they get terrible gas mileage, pollute our atmosphere, and increase our dependency on the middle-east we still have those that will drive them because they feel it's their right to do whatever they please. So ask that question again "what is wrong with owning as many cars, houses, etc, etc, as possible?" Well, the next time you drive through LA in the summer and see the nasty pollution ask that question again. Or the next time you drive through the Sierra Nevedas and see miles of clear cuts ask yourself where the wood is going. Or how about the next time OPEC raises gas prices, are you going to be the first to complain. We don't live in a vacuum and how we live our lives and the resources that we consume have a broader effect then our eye-sight will let us to believe. Again, I'm not saying we all need to live just above the poverty line and be grateful. Just that I think it's reasonable to believe "equity and concern" over our struggling colleagues (and our countries resources) should come first over a selfish life style. And if you still can't put 1 and 1 together, well then your childrens generation will suffer the consequence and you can go to your grave satisfied "ya did dern good fer yer country, an ya wer a good American."
I can hear the rebuttals now......."yer a traitor, yer Unamerican. Get the rope boyz...."
As for some of you who think I haven't worked hard in aviation, you obviously don't understand what the military does. I don't have a need to justify to anyone how hard I have worked, but just to inform some of those that have an attitude towards military pilots.......let's see, spent time flying missions in Bosinia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, South America, Africa and many other places living in nasty muddy dumps, eating nothing but mre's, being shot at etc, etc, etc. And I chose to to it (and would do it again). My father was career military and so I went in with eyes wide open......and never once regretted doing it.
AJ
