JetDude
Just Happy To Be Here!
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2004
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I couldn't disagree more about being well compensated. 190 bucks an hour for a senior major airline pilot is far from impressive. Just 10 years ago in 1997-1999 most NWA, AA, CAL were being paid about 170 an hour on similar equipment. In the present year 2008 that would have to be 220 an hour just to maintain the same earning power. And that 170 hour rate was before the acceptable contracts that United earned in late 2000 and Delta in 2001 which had 737 guys at 220 bucks an hour, and that was 7 years ago. Today that would have to be 267 for the same earning power. As far as I'm concerned you guys are about 75 an hour short from being well compensated.
Good...simple math. Funny thing about numbers, you can make them reflect any argument you want. But you forgot to factor in the furlough factor which drives the average (past) compensation waaaayyyy down. Talk to those that made those wages 4 years then spent the next 2-3 years on the street and see how the average stacks up.