Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
“Luckily command will be only ten years away, then you can afford to live there.”
Well no, because meagre pay increases (or freezes) while prices increase will erode your buying power. The compounding effect of failure to have increases matching inflation NOW means that you will be falling behind forever.
Admittedly I was being a little facetious with the 10 to upgrade comment, as I believe it is significantly longer than 10 years. But your comment is spot on and just one of a multitude of problems with the Australian career path. Case in point, when was the last time a Qlink dash skipper had a real CoL pay increase? In comparison, below is the pay for an equivalent job stateside.
To be fair for those not playing along at home though, the US regionals are imploding due to their captains being poached by legacy carriers. These pay rates are designed to slow a regional's collapse while mainline spin up training and take delivery of new aircraft to pick up the lift. And the flow programs give you a "guaranteed" mainline job in return for your time there. To give you an idea, United has hired 2300 pilots this year alone. American and Delta are not far behind those numbers either.
