This Roger Cohen makes me want to puke

[WayBack]

What is Cohen's resume?

 

[sayrejm]

THERE ARE NO FOs AT ASA MAKING LESS THAN 30K??? AYFSM????

1: if that is true then it is only because they are all FURLOUGHED!

2: I got furloughed Feb 9 last year... my tax returns for 2008.... NET INCOME: 15,600!

so take your average pay and go buy me a coke with it. there still exists pilots in the cockpit making less than 20K... average be damned... it only takes one.

 

[Yuppyguppy]

What, exactly, did he say that made him a tool? If anything, he didn't defend our industry enough. There are no first officers at ASA earning under $35,000 per year or so. The average is probably closer to $40,000.00 - $45,000.00, since we haven't hired in so long.

Of course, ASA is a "major" airline by definition, and truly cannot be placed in the same bucket as other smaller regional airlines. That is a point that this show didn't make. Not all regionals are the same, and that is an important fact.

It also didn't make the point that regionals do more takeoffs and landings and more legs per day at 52% of the flights for the majors. It is pure mathematics that more accidents will be at the regional level. If most of the flights were the majors, but the accidents were at the regional level, THEN it might mean something.

Remember guys, this show has an axe to grind, and they edit and show what they want the public to see.

YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!! and that's putting it nicely

 

[semperfido]

A neophyte

 

[sayrejm]

ne⋅o⋅phyte  [nee-uh-fahyt] Show IPA
–noun
1. a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
2. Roman Catholic Church. a novice.
3. a person newly converted to a belief, as a heathen, heretic, or nonbeliever; proselyte.
4. Primitive Church. a person newly baptized.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

THERE ARE NO FOs AT ASA MAKING LESS THAN 30K??? AYFSM????

1: if that is true then it is only because they are all FURLOUGHED!

2: I got furloughed Feb 9 last year... my tax returns for 2008.... NET INCOME: 15,600!

so take your average pay and go buy me a coke with it. there still exists pilots in the cockpit making less than 20K... average be damned... it only takes one.

You're right. They are all furloughed, and if you weren't you would be making over $30,000 too, because we haven't hired anyone since 5/7/2008.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!! and that's putting it nicely

You're just deluding yourself, and have no understanding of business if you think that you're going to get paid $100,000 a year to be a regional FO.

Dream on, flyboy.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

A neophyte

Why, exactly, are you guys defending this show. It is making YOUR industry look bad. It is making YOU look like you are inexperienced, and unsafe.

Are you unsafe? Is your company unsafe?

 

[semperfido]

Number 1

 

[sayrejm]

ok true, if i was called back it would be 2nd year pay... but the next guy hired would be at less than 20K... then the next, then the next... and WE are a leader in pay in the industry. No one claims to believe they should be paid 100K as an FO... but, less than 20??? even if it is first year... I personally would rather make more money early in my career than more money later in my career... The whole Time Value of money concept thingy I learned in my fancy finance class.... yea, i know, good luck with that.