Originally Posted by
Sam Ting Wong
Still waiting for that miracle Asian airline where top talent pilots are happy, well paid and love to live.
Anyone?
PS JJM,Mngt Mole, Desirable pilots? Most airlines had quite an impressive firing rate last year. Could have had an impact on their morale as well ( just a wild guess)
ANA and JAL widebody pay is on par and above CX... And I am not even referring to the ANA expat contract.
Chinese carrier and Korean carrier contract job is above CX rate.
SQ current rate is about 15% below CX rate assuming 70 hours... Above 70 hours, CX paid will just get higher and higher as the CX hourly above MPP is much higher then SQ hourly rate.
The issue why you can't really compare CX salary to every other asian airline is because CX only has one salary regardless of aircraft type. Not many airline structure their pilot salary this way. 99% of the worlds airline pay their narrow body lower paid, and then as the aircraft gets bigger, the paid is higher. This results in our competitor having narrow body FO and CAPT being paid less then CX pilot, where our competitor widebody FO and CAPT can be paid more then CX. CX salary just essentially average that out.
Which is also why, it is not really fair for some expat who just say 747 or 777 or 330/350 CAPT at Delta or BA or Qantas or whatever is paid like 30% more then CX CAPT... They should go ask those same FO and CAPT, how many years it took them to get onto the 777 or 350 CAPT seat? 10, 15, even 20 years? While in those 10 to 20 years, they are earning pay that are what, 20 to 30% below CX pay? And how much even lower when they are flying the regional jet earning less then someone who works at McDonalds?
Ok to be fair, in recent years, the likes of North American carrier has increase their FO paid by a lot due to lack of pilot and retention issue... but you get what I mean... CX salary has always been higher on the bottom end and lower on the top end. Which is how CX used to stay competitive...
Now they have just bring it to another level really...