Originally Posted by
jimmievegas
Fair point, replace the word "experience" with "aptitude" in my post. Those with aptitude should be given the more responsible roles. Sitting in the same job for 20 years is not, on its own, a good enough reason to be paid more.
Still no.
You can be the pilot with the greatest aptitude, but not so great at understanding and correcting a junior pilot's ways - and therefore you should never be a trainer.
As has been pointed out above, the top salary is "the" salary, and you have to suffer a discount on the way up there. At my airline, FO's are paid terribly (take home around £1400 after loan repayments) and they only stay as they are on the path to "the" salary. To then say that everyone should settle for the intermediate or lowest discounted salary is very wrong.