Colgan Interview Questions

[Hootie]

It's nice to think that, but it's not true. In fact if the airline industry got together and told the public that if they could cut their pilot's salaries by just $0.50 an hour they could save $5 on the price of a ticket the uproar to go ahead and do it would be deafening.....

There has to be a bottom to it though. Once they start paying sixty grand to 747 captains, either nobody will do it or they will have to find highly inexperienced people to do it. Once crashes start making some noise people will either stop flying or pay up for safe travel. Pilot salaries were super high
pre-deregulation because that was what benefited the the company (read up on history). Salaries will slowly trickle down (as they have been) but will still have to be in the six figures (for safety). As for entry level wages being low and the same the past 10 years, that is true in any industry. Wages aren't keeping up with inflation and that is just business, political, and economic cycles. Hopefully UND, ERAU, ATP, MPD, RAA, ETC. will lose enrollment as the truth of this career gets out and we could see some reduction of output of regional cult kids. Until then its supply and demand at the entry level.

 

[MCP]

I made more than a first year F.O. while I was a part-time sales guy at CompUSA about 5 years ago (would retail-hourly considered blue collar or white collar?). But that was sales, and commisions were a lot higher then. Now the higher commissions scale is gone and is much lower in comparison. I guess CompUSA finally decided they didn't want to fit the bill for that any longer. LOL

Of course, working at CompUSA isn't nearly as much fun as flying though.