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Old 9th Feb 2021, 23:30
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neville_nobody
 
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I’ve always said airline pilots and unions needed to be concentrating on the entry level parts of the industry, to ensure conditions there were good enough and career paths into airlines more definite so pilots wouldn’t be racing out of GA into jets as soon as possible. Alas pilots at the top only seem to be interested in feathering their own nests as much as possible, but then scratch their heads wondering why when pilots at the bottom on far worse conditions take jet jobs at lower pay than them.
Problem is you can't afford to pay GA pilots 100K+ because they just don't generate enough revenue. Given the biggest GA aircraft is going to be a 19 seater you only have a limited market of paying customers.

Same with flying instructors. If you had to pay an instructor 150K a year and if they flew 1000 hours that's $150 an hour just for the instructor before you even start an engine.

If you then compare that to the seat cost per hour of an airline pilots, airline pilots are very cheap per seat because there 100+ of them to spread around cost of labour.

Anyway Alliance will have experienced type rated people falling over themselves at $150K for an Ejet regardless. Until people start resigning and going to other operators nothing will change on that front.
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