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Originally Posted by jtrain609  All good points Tim, but what you fail to realize is that the average lawyer out of a fourth tier law school such as Cooley pops out making an average of $120,000 a year, where the chances of a pilot making it to mainline and making that much money are MUCH smaller.
A lot of folks say, "Hey, get your 1,000 TPIC and Southwest will come banging down your door! There's a pilot shortage here guys!" But what most people fail to realize is that the number of guys that will make it to mainline is decidedly small, and there's a considerable amount of risk for the amount of time, money and effort put into this career.
Even once you're at a mainline do you think it's all roses? Do you want to move to Newark, or do you want to commute to reserve for 10 years because you got in at the end of a hiring wave at Continental, because you might be faced with that choice IF you make it there. |
Agreed, Please dont think I'm in anyway for low pay. Although I'm not there YET I'm doing my best to study the "way of the airline pilot" Since that is what I want to do when I grow up (haha im 39). To think about an fo making 20k and living out of a suitcase, and the expenses involved with a travelling job, sometimes I wonder if I must be nuts to even consider doing this.
I'm currently a union member (non aviation) We are in contract negotiations right now. My hope is that better negotations in the future will bring back to the airline industry what it has lost.