How's an AE newhire supposed to make it?

[WhiteCloud]

Re: C-mon, Labbats!

The fact that Labbats is only making $7000.00 leads me to believe that he/she is NOT being the smartest CFI he/she can be...

Just like other pilot's, CFI's don't always have control over pay issues. They can only hurt themselves by walking out in today's market and it isn't going to change the industry if they aren't there. Best to at least get the time in you need (1500hrs?) then move on.

 

[Flyairjason]

It's a matter of choices.

If you believe that walking out on a substandard quality of life and trying to make things better is only going to hurt you, then you will always make $7,000.00 per year (figuratively speaking of course). If you're going to suck it up, then go for it... But don't expect things to change, because you're only ensuring the perpetuality of the lifestyle. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the point of this thread?
Whitecloud, are you suggesting that our profession should just continue to take it deep because it's a means to an end? Don't think for a minute that I'm suggesting that a guy should walk everytime it gets rough-I'm not. But know that everytime you sell out or somehow compromise the integrity of our lives and professions, it will happen again and again. That's why I made $13,000.00 my first year at Colgan, and part of the reason I left that operation.
Regards fellas,
Jason

 

[eglcrjfo]

Unfortunately you're gonna have to figure out how bad you wanna do this. This industry is not for the faint of heart. I've been at Eagle for 4 years and things are slowly starting to break loose. SJU (San Juan) is an easy commute. There's 3 nonstops out of DFW daily. Miami is tougher. A lot of commuters live in Miami. For other airlines look at their flight schedules for their bases. All the regioanals have pretty much the same starting pay. When I hired on in 99' people were getting off the rock (SJU) pretty quick (6-8 months) but I think those days are over. Where ever you go it's not gonna be easy.

God bless...

 

[WorldSeries]

i have an idea, you take a card board box cut it into a square and then make a sign out of it and as the passengers get off the plane at thier destination you stand by the exit door and hold the sign that says " Thanks for flying on us, I hope to see you on a future flight and tips are appreciated, I will only make 17k this year, thanks have a great day"

and yes we pilots choose to accept a low paying job, but dont we low paided still tip everyone else?? Hotel van driver, hotel waitress, cab drivers etc..they all choose low paying job too but they expect a tip for thier service so we should start expecting a tip for our service since we are basically doing it free for the 1st few years !!!!!!!!..