US major airline pay perspective

[JerryLundegaard]

So I don't have to read post above, are we talking about Wisconsin?

Minnesota would be closer, you know....Minneapolis...

 

[johnsonrod]

Don't forget another big benefit...

You guys are forgetting another huge benefit of flying in Europe... The FAs are actually hot chicks - attractive, thin and young. In other words, the polar opposite of what you find at Delta, UAL and AA these days. Thankfully SWA still has some attractive ladies. I flew on Lufthansa a few months back and the vast majority of the FAs on the A340-600 flight back to the US were hot blondes. We're talking Penthouse hot. That's another huge benefit you have to consider...

 

[PreContact]

You guys are forgetting another huge benefit of flying in Europe... The FAs are actually hot chicks - attractive, thin and young. In other words, the polar opposite of what you find at Delta, UAL and AA these days. Thankfully SWA still has some attractive ladies. I flew on Lufthansa a few months back and the vast majority of the FAs on the A340-600 flight back to the US were hot blondes. We're talking Penthouse hot. That's another huge benefit you have to consider...

Well there goes half your retirement! Freight is best!!!

 

[Full of LUV]

Max....

My friend; please move out of the country - while people like me try to fix the last 10 years.

The most important thing to remember is we are not barbarians in this country, if someone without insurance is shot, injured acutely, or dying on the streets our Doctors are obligated to treat them. WHO PAYS FOR THIS? People with insurance!!!! Those of us with insurance are overcharged when we visit the hospitals so they can pay for the deadbeat who refuses to pay for insurance. That is one big part of health care reform - PUNISH those who refuse to get insurance.

Max,
Just so you know and can stop using incorrect data, the infant mortality rates are a complete sham. Every country is allowed to define an "infant". In the US, if the fetus takes one breath, it is a "newborn" and despite spending months or weeks in NICU, if it dies, it is a stat. Since we have so much more technology than most of the world, we apply it to saving seemingly desperate cases that would not be counted in most nations.

Most nations say a "baby" has to make it to full gestation and live before it is a statistic, that way a baby that has many problems that they don't even have the tech to save aren't counted against them.

Some third world countries don't count an infant as a life birth until after more time, etc.....

read about it on the internet or from the CDC.

 

[michael707767]

Not bad...except cost of living is astronomical and you will pay 42% income tax on your 62,000 euros plus a "city" tax of 14%-17%.

Once Obama is done we will have a high cost of living, super high taxes, and we will still be stuck making less than the Lufthansa pilots.

 

[waveflyer]

while so many of us try to use scary words like socialist- the rest of the flying community is living a lot better than us.

 

[igneousy2]

This isn't about the EU airlines negotiating prowess...this is about the debasement of the US dollar.

It hasn't been that long since 1 Euro = 1 Dollar...I think around 2001-2002. In fact I think I remember a period where the Euro was exchanged at a fraction of a dollar at around .9 or so...maybe at the turn of the century?

 

[gt1900]

Once Obama is done we will have a high cost of living, super high taxes, and we will still be stuck making less than the Lufthansa pilots.

Not trying to make this political. But why not do some research on how the economy performs with a democrat in office vs a republican in office. Why your at it. Break it down to a democrat in office with the dems controlling congress, a dem president with GOP congress, a republican in office with a dem congress, and republican in office with a dem congress. Your type of feer mongering makes me sick. And the reason the GOP is using it because they know their economic policies have failed. Why is it that only 1 republican president ranks in the top 5 presidents who had the best economies while in office? And like I said, Im not trying to make this political, because I voted for Bush two times, but the facts are the facts! And the economy struggles under a Republican pres vs a Demo pres, with Reagan being the one exception.

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Once Obama is done we will have a high cost of living, super high taxes, and we will still be stuck making less than the Lufthansa pilots.

No way Michael. This is a one term president ala jimmy carter, which by the way is looking like a visionary, next to the putz we call president.

 

[Ex737Driver]

Not trying to make this political. But why not do some research on how the economy performs with a democrat in office vs a republican in office. Why your at it. Break it down to a democrat in office with the dems controlling congress, a dem president with GOP congress, a republican in office with a dem congress, and republican in office with a dem congress. Your type of feer mongering makes me sick. And the reason the GOP is using it because they know their economic policies have failed. Why is it that only 1 republican president ranks in the top 5 presidents who had the best economies while in office? And like I said, Im not trying to make this political, because I voted for Bush two times, but the facts are the facts! And the economy struggles under a Republican pres vs a Demo pres, with Reagan being the one exception.

and Carter was a good president because...............he ate peanuts?