"Gatt" wrote in message
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"Panic" wrote in message
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Yeah, and what do many non-pilots don't fully understand is that pilots
get paid for the hours they fly...not for the hours they work. In an 8
hour workday they may only get 4 hours of flight pay. Flight planning,
preflight, postflight, etc are not paid hours of work. $22.00/hour pay
rate (flight time) can translate to $11.00 an hour for actual working
time.

I'm curious as to why the airline pilots haven't all gone on strike to
demand better pay. Clearly, they can't be easily replaced or the
airlines wouldn't be scraping the bottom of the barrel for new hires. I
learned about supply/demand in Economics 101 but I'm sure the airline
executives know exactly what they're doing.

It's somewhat like the guy in the circus whose job is to shovel out the
elephant manure each day. When someone asked him why he didn't quit he said
"What? And give up show business?" We are our own worst financial enemy.
Too many pilots enjoy flying so much that they'll work for peanuts.

I'm sorry, but, there's a Burgerville down the road that pays better than
$11/hr, and a car dealership that pays better too; why would I invest tens
of thousands of dollars, submit myself to annual medical exams, corporate
nonsense (such as pilot salary) and inherent job insecurity, and then
separate myself from my family for less than what the guy flipping burgers
or selling Toyotas down the street makes?

Here's one otherwise-interested commercial pilot that the airlines won't
get for less than the $42,000 I could make resetting people's
e-mail and router passwords from the safety of an air-conditioned office.

-c