410dude said:
Allegiant flies major equipment for commuter pay!
Dear 410dude
Our 1st year f/o make $41/hour, as much as any other major. The pay doesn't scale up nearly as fast, but by 2nd year you are in the left seat with our current growth. I am making 3rd year capt. pay at $80/hour. I don't think there are too many regionals making 3rd year capt at that rate. I have made more at Allegiant than I ever made even after 11 years at a 'major' regional. We just negotiated pay rate increases, while every major in this country is negotiating:
1. pay cut, on top of pay cut, on top of pay cut, on top of...you get the picture?
2. just to keep thier jobs, while they go through bankruptcy.
The majors are losing XX millions of dollars A DAY because they have made BAD business decisions. One of those BAD business decisions was to agree to pay an MD80 capt $200,000/yr so he can sit on his ass on reserves, turn down every trip that comes to him and never fly. And people wonder why they are all in bankruptcy??? Basic economics, if it cost you $10 bucks to make a pair of shoes and you sell it for $5 bucks, you will LOSE MONEY!!! The majors have yet to figure this out. The airplane is the revenue generator. If the cost of flying that airplane, including the crew, cost more than the price the seats make then you will LOSE MONEY!!! The labor (the crews) and the fuel are the largest cost of any airline. Fuel costs are not controllable per se, crew costs are. If your airline can not make money paying you what they are now, what do you think they are going to do????? They are going to lower your salary regardless of what you think you ought to make.
My suggestion for you is:
a)stop being a flame-baiter, everyone here seems to think you are a child-idiot, and your act is getting old and stale.
b)stop pretending to be something you are not, if you can't have an honest avatar/profile etc. then maybe you need a different line of work, like a lawyer or politician. Providing of course that you are even really a pilot, nothing I've seen of yours so far suggests that you are.
Brian