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http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/07/13/rising-demand-for-airline-pilots-raises-safety-concerns/?intcmp=feature
Shortage of pilot's and AMT's!
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Oh, the poor airlines. I guess they'll have to cut current employee pay and benefits even more to pay for all this training without cutting into the executives' bonusses.
AA management offer for an American Airlines Captain flying the A319, about $140,000/Yr, less than a B727 Domestic Flight Engineer in 2000.
Going rate in Asia for that same Type Rating $240,000+/yr and rising.
Moving overseas is a tough decison for most, but we are quickly approaching a decscription of that decison as a no-brainer for many with that pay difference. Should be hilarious watching a guy collect his Type Rating at DFW, grab a flight to PVG after his IOE and quit by a Skype call.
Going rate in Asia for that same Type Rating $240,000+/yr and rising.
Moving overseas is a tough decison for most, but we are quickly approaching a decscription of that decison as a no-brainer for many with that pay difference. Should be hilarious watching a guy collect his Type Rating at DFW, grab a flight to PVG after his IOE and quit by a Skype call.
jimntx
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And, management will be standing at the windows at Centerport clutching their pearls, aghast at how they have been betrayed by those demon, disloyal, conniving pilots.
Yup.
Just look at the RAA and that piece of work Roger Cohen. He still actually thinks a 250-500 hour new hire is a competent pilot.
Look at them now. they hired an expensive consultancy to figure out their executive compensation, something that should have been decided in a morning meeting after serving the labor 1113C's.
Any chance they will set their pay at the same relative worldwide rate as the A319 pilot rate?
Just look at the RAA and that piece of work Roger Cohen. He still actually thinks a 250-500 hour new hire is a competent pilot.
Look at them now. they hired an expensive consultancy to figure out their executive compensation, something that should have been decided in a morning meeting after serving the labor 1113C's.
Any chance they will set their pay at the same relative worldwide rate as the A319 pilot rate?
jimntx
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More likely, their pay will be the A319 pilot rate times the number of pilots that they employ.
jimntx
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It's the same article word for word. Both the Herald and Fox reprinted the same Associated Press story.
It's been a kick arse career since the WWII Bomber guys retired (single seat guys were out in 1946) :blush:
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Did you pick up on the fact that they devoted one whole paragraph to the fact that there was an AMT shortage also?
