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0 pointsericbarrett4y ago0 comments

Pilots not flying major routes for major airlines make less, in some cases a lot less ($30-40k a year).

0 pointsericbarrett4y ago0 comments

Pilots not flying major routes for major airlines make less, in some cases a lot less ($30-40k a year).

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jabedude4y ago· 3 in thread

How is this information relevant on a discussion about a pilot shortage affecting a major carrier?

dsr_4y ago

In the same way that you don't get to be a principal engineer at Google on your first day out of college, you don't get to be a captain on your first day out of flight school.

But the pay and working conditions for new pilots is rather worse than it is for new programmers.

qbasic_forever4y ago

Yeah, people should think of this like "what if Google engineers started at $45k salaries instead of $120k+?" They could work for years to get up to that same $300k+ level but they're starting much lower and expected to just take it (and the ultra high mountain view/SF cost of living).

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casylum4y ago

Lots of people leave the profession before becoming pilots at a major carrier.

Fomite4y ago

Note most of those pilots will be on Horizon, not Alaska.

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