I'm not an aviation professional - I'm 27 with all my commercial/CFI ratings and about 700 hours.
I keep up with the writings on scope and RJ's (its interesting!) and it seems to me that basically the mainline guys are finding it cheaper to send flights to the regionals because you can pay the pilots a lot less.
I have a couple of questions... Why does ALPA not want to force the pay at a place like Comair up and forget the whole scope thing? Is there a reason? It seems like it would be in everyone's best interest (except mgmt of course)
On a side note. The real problem seems to be a glut of pilots. I figure the reason most of these jobs pay so poorly is because somebody takes the job. For example, I recall seeing coex drop the minimums down to like 500 hours rather than up the pay. I have no doubt they would have dropped the requirement for an actual pilot's licesnse before paying the crew more. And as you get what you pay for..... Well I can walk down to the cafeteria and see what 15K a year gets you. Why not make it more difficult to become a pilot and keep the bozos who work for peanuts out? Require a master's degree or something like that. We've some real morons teaching at the local FBO, and as long as they are out there giving poor instruction for nothing, there is no decent paying job to be had.
The situation doesn't make me mad, it is what it is... I'm just not taking the job.
I keep up with the writings on scope and RJ's (its interesting!) and it seems to me that basically the mainline guys are finding it cheaper to send flights to the regionals because you can pay the pilots a lot less.
I have a couple of questions... Why does ALPA not want to force the pay at a place like Comair up and forget the whole scope thing? Is there a reason? It seems like it would be in everyone's best interest (except mgmt of course)
On a side note. The real problem seems to be a glut of pilots. I figure the reason most of these jobs pay so poorly is because somebody takes the job. For example, I recall seeing coex drop the minimums down to like 500 hours rather than up the pay. I have no doubt they would have dropped the requirement for an actual pilot's licesnse before paying the crew more. And as you get what you pay for..... Well I can walk down to the cafeteria and see what 15K a year gets you. Why not make it more difficult to become a pilot and keep the bozos who work for peanuts out? Require a master's degree or something like that. We've some real morons teaching at the local FBO, and as long as they are out there giving poor instruction for nothing, there is no decent paying job to be had.
The situation doesn't make me mad, it is what it is... I'm just not taking the job.