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Originally Posted by RightSeatGirl  The money is there? Really? Where?
50 seat RJ cost averages (generalized numbers):
$2500 per hour for fuel
$700 per hour for maint
$100 per hour for flight crew and f/a
$3300 per hour...now consider this..out of the remaining profit per seat (around $7000 or so) must come revenue to pay for:
Every paper clip, every roll of duct tape, every admin, HR, scheduling, dispatch, ground personnel salary, every dime of office utility costs, every piece of printer paper, every roll of toilet paper in company restrooms, every dime spent on insurance of various types, band width for web sites, advertising, legal costs etc etc etc...when you whittle it down...another $1.50 is no longer such a small amount....
Understand the big picture. You are looking at a complex economic system too simplistically. And for the record. I was never defending low salaries. But I do understand them. I see things from other points of view. Not just through the cockpit window.
I'm not saying there is not a fair amount of greed within the management side of the airline industry. And that there is absolutely no room for improvements salary wise. I am saying that this is not simple issue and many I hear talking don't seem to grasp that concept. A board of directors cannot simply and arbitrarily hand out higher salaries to pilots just because we have earned them or want them even if they were willing to do so. |
Speaking purely at the regional level - you know what all of that really says? It's that the company bid too low to provide the operation with the overhead that it needs. If that's the case, I could give one quarter of a crap less if the company can come up with the cash to pay more or not. What do any of us ever get to see as pilots? Management does great and all the employees get the shaft.
If my company really has no extra money laying around at all to give me a pay raise then fine, I guess I wont get one. But don't for a second try to con me into thinking that if you can then go out and buy new planes and companies and hand out nice management bonuses. That doesn't wash. I may be a pilot but I'm no young idiot. I'm about to turn 30, spent 10 years as an officer and pilot in the Air Force and have an advanced degree from the Colorado Mountain School for wayward children. I can spot BS from a good distance away.
Oh and Velo, we ALWAYS wanna hear from you!
