Can We Get A CLUE?

[Whine Lover]

I think NOT.

We are our own worst enemy.

Let's dissect this statement from one of our own:

"I started at Air Callifornia in 1979 at 700 per month / 10 per hr. Recently retired from AA at 200 per hr. with a nice retirement. Hang in there. It is worth it."


Let's look at that "AA 200 per hr." :

- In 1976 an Airline Captain made about $85,000 / Year.

Corrected for various factors ( http://www.aier.org/research/col.php ):

- That would be about $301,159.00 Today. (Somethings WRONG here....)

YET...a 777 Captain, at the WORLDS LARGEST AIRLINE...NOT, "THIS COUNTRY'S LARGEST".... But the "WORLDS LARGEST AIRLINE" makes:

- AA 777 Captain / 12 Year = $199/hour x 64 hour Guarantee = $152,832 Annually. ( http://airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/american.html)

( Just for reference: An AA 757 Captain / 12 year ... 6-8 years ago... made approx. $156,00 Annually. )

Something is VERY, VERY, WRONG HERE FOLKS.

VERY WRONG.

I do not mean to disparage the American Retiree that initially posted this.

I only ask that you all wake up and start looking at the reality that has befallen us.

And WHO is to blame?

Not Management, who has seen ten and twenty fold Salary/Compensation increases over the same time frame and using the same comparative analysis.

It is YOU and I.

PILOTS. "Smart as a whip....and Dumber than S-HIT."

I am so glad that I am getting OLD...I will walk away, smoke a "Big Doobie" and forget about ALL of this.

Some of you may not be so Fortunate.


YKW

 

[Captain Overs]

Except you left out the point that the guy in 1979 was making that right AFTER deregulation when the airlines were ripping the government off. By that I mean they told the government what is cost to do business and the government paid that and then some. We saw those wages couldn't be sustained in a free market.


You got lucky to be born many years earlier. I still think this job beats working.

 

[BigRed1]

...... I still think this job beats working.

It is quotes like this by our professional pilots that will continue to cause downward pressure on quality of WORK life. The people paying us think we love it so much and would do it for so much less. D*MN IT...SHUT UP! Seriously.