goldentrout
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If you're worth so much more as an airline pilot...how come you're only making $10/hr or whatever paultry salary you're making now?
If that's the best job you can get...then guess what, the market is telling you how much you're currently worth. You may be the next Chuck Yeager...but you're worth whatever you're currently getting paid.
Otherwise, you'd be somewhere else making more, wouldn't you?
As far as deregulation, you must be either
a. ignorant of how market economics work
b. a socialist who thinks the tax payers of America should subsidize airlines, and therefore pilot salaries.
You're 100% correct deregulation did cause the 11 major airline bankruptcies...because when the American taxpayer stopped subsidizing the $300,000/yr Pan Am 747 Capt salary, the airlines were forced to compete on the profitability of their business...just like every other business in America.
"Thank God for ALPA"??????
Non-ALPA carrier SWA
1. Turned a profit evey year of their existence
2. No lay offs post 9/11
3. Hiring post 9/11
4. Buying planes post 9/11
ALPA carrier UAL
1. Lost 1.5 billion in 2001...on a record pace to break 2 billion in 2002
2. Has laid off close to 1200 pilots post 9/11, with anywhere from 500-1000 more on their way out the door
3. No prospect of hiring for many years to come
4. Parking planes, cutting route structure and deferring plane orders.
And let's not forget the 1500 guys on furlough at US Air...the 700 or so at NWA...the 1000 or so at DAL (with more to come)
Your socialist/union economic theory is on it's way out...it's just a matter of time.
The whole system is collapsing around you...thousands of pilots/mechanics/FAs on furlough...bankruptices...big planes being parked and orders deferred...RJs being bought as fast as they can be made...RJ carriers hiring and growing more and more every day...low cost carriers gaining more and more market share every year.
How can you stare all these facts in the face and say "yea ALPA...thanks for all you've done for us"?????
We can debate this all we want on this message board...but time and current events are and will tell which one of us is right...based on what I see happening, my money's on the free market.
If you're worth so much more as an airline pilot...how come you're only making $10/hr or whatever paultry salary you're making now?
If that's the best job you can get...then guess what, the market is telling you how much you're currently worth. You may be the next Chuck Yeager...but you're worth whatever you're currently getting paid.
Otherwise, you'd be somewhere else making more, wouldn't you?
As far as deregulation, you must be either
a. ignorant of how market economics work
b. a socialist who thinks the tax payers of America should subsidize airlines, and therefore pilot salaries.
You're 100% correct deregulation did cause the 11 major airline bankruptcies...because when the American taxpayer stopped subsidizing the $300,000/yr Pan Am 747 Capt salary, the airlines were forced to compete on the profitability of their business...just like every other business in America.
"Thank God for ALPA"??????
Non-ALPA carrier SWA
1. Turned a profit evey year of their existence
2. No lay offs post 9/11
3. Hiring post 9/11
4. Buying planes post 9/11
ALPA carrier UAL
1. Lost 1.5 billion in 2001...on a record pace to break 2 billion in 2002
2. Has laid off close to 1200 pilots post 9/11, with anywhere from 500-1000 more on their way out the door
3. No prospect of hiring for many years to come
4. Parking planes, cutting route structure and deferring plane orders.
And let's not forget the 1500 guys on furlough at US Air...the 700 or so at NWA...the 1000 or so at DAL (with more to come)
Your socialist/union economic theory is on it's way out...it's just a matter of time.
The whole system is collapsing around you...thousands of pilots/mechanics/FAs on furlough...bankruptices...big planes being parked and orders deferred...RJs being bought as fast as they can be made...RJ carriers hiring and growing more and more every day...low cost carriers gaining more and more market share every year.
How can you stare all these facts in the face and say "yea ALPA...thanks for all you've done for us"?????
We can debate this all we want on this message board...but time and current events are and will tell which one of us is right...based on what I see happening, my money's on the free market.
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