Propwash

Airlines: Some Costs They Can't - And Shouldn't - Cut

The US Air Force launches new pilots off to fly anything in the USAF inventory with 250 hours of pilot time after they complete the 1 year training course. 1st Lt. pay is pretty low too.
Maybe it's the unions.................


On Oct 31 04:15 PM Dave English wrote:

> American Eagle has long been a DOT major airline (over 1 Billion
> in revenue, over 200 aircraft flying over 5 time zones, etc etc)
> and it hires pilots with only 200 something hours and 10 hours in
> multi-engine aircraft. The starting pay is under $20,000. Folks buying
> a ticket on American may get the experienced gray haired AA captain,
> or they may get a kid who had his first flying lesson six months
> ago. It's a broken system.
>
> Oh, and some airlines (eg JetBlue) do pay pilots double on holidays.