Word is reaching the masses.
- Thread starter SteveC
- Start date
TFaudree_ERAU
Mashin' dem buttons
Bad news.
The only time I read the comics is when someone posts one on the interwebs.
The only time I read the comics is when someone posts one on the interwebs.
c172captain
Well-Known Member
Then its a good thing you already know how bad airline pilot pay can be.
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
I dig it. Keep the popular sentiment alive, and it helps us build our basis for change.
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
I find it endlessly amusing that there's this notion abroad that anyone cares how underpaid pilots are. They don't. When was the last time you voted for a tax raise, for example, because you felt the garbage men were underpaid?
The only way wages increase is if the ratio of available labor to jobs decreases. That happens if A) There are fewer pilots or B) There are more pilots required or C) Some number of existing pilots are not qualified for the jobs we're discussing (ATP mins for 121, for example). None of these is going to be helped by appealing to the masses, because the masses do not care and never will.
The only way wages increase is if the ratio of available labor to jobs decreases. That happens if A) There are fewer pilots or B) There are more pilots required or C) Some number of existing pilots are not qualified for the jobs we're discussing (ATP mins for 121, for example). None of these is going to be helped by appealing to the masses, because the masses do not care and never will.
falconvalley
Absentee Dad of the OOTSK, Runner, Cat Frustrator
Personally, I think the extent of caring will be affected by how they feel our pay affects their own lives. There's been slight amount of concern for public safety in the last few months, but I'm afraid that unless accidents continue to occur, the concern will dim. I agree with Boris. There's really little enthusiasm unless they feel they are directly affected.
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
Airlines hate bad press.
This is bad press for them.
Now, when a pilot group protests, or goes on strike, or whatever, the public will know why, and the airline won't have much public support to push them.
Change, like many things in aviation, is not an event- it's a trend.
It starts here.
This is bad press for them.
Now, when a pilot group protests, or goes on strike, or whatever, the public will know why, and the airline won't have much public support to push them.
Change, like many things in aviation, is not an event- it's a trend.
It starts here.
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
If hiring requirements change, nobody'll be willing to invest the *effort* required to meet them in order to work for peanuts.
People ran to regional jobs in the past because they were a convenient bridge from Cessnas and Seminoles to 737s. Make a gap between flight schools and part 121 operators, and suddenly people aren't quite so eager.
Matt13C
Well-Known Member
Except now you have ALPA supporting MCPL, which removes the Cessna and Seminole altogether and puts everyone right into a 737. :clap:
But word is getting around. I have had a few friends ask if its true that pilots makes 20k a year. When I inform them it is and in some cases they actually make much less and fill them in on many of the other details they always ask why I want to leave my current job for it.
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
ALPA supporting MCPL? I find that hard to believe.
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
See, once you're a Moustache, it's in your interests to see to it that the company can find meat for the seat. Same as it ever was, pull the ladder up behind you. Human nature being what it is, it's the same as it will ever be.
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
Crap.
It hasn't made sense to do so in a while, yet people still do it.
