Originally Posted by
mngmt mole
It's not about making anyone jealous. It's about emphasising to this blind and self aggrandizing management that the industry has moved far beyond their blinkered viewpoint. Without a quick acceptance of where this industry is going, and the necessity of paying their pilots a proper wage and benefits package, this company will surely suffer a rapid decline of safety and reputation. It is only a matter of time.
I can’t believe people still believe this type of stuff. Guys please, you’ve been in aviation long enough to know that managers don’t think like we do. Every single Cx manager must be feeling so sorry for their American counterparts and American managers are beyond jealous of what’s being paid to pilots in Europe and Asia. Dude, aviation is not going the way of the U.S., aviation is going the way of Europe and Asia, lower salaries and lower benefits.
What’s happening in the US is a case of regulation that has caused a massive shortage of pilots paired with huge retirements and a massive aviation rebound, nothing more and nothing less. In Europe and Asia it’s all well catered for.
There’s also an issue called supply and demand and outside of the US it’s practically non-existent. CX for instance has a problem recruiting qualified jockeys, fair enough. However when push comes to shove and the situation becomes critical they’ll just lower the standards. If any of you come across someone from talent acquisition just ask them about the massive amounts of applications they receive on a daily basis, you’ll be shocked. There are tons of unemployed Malaysian, Philipinos, Pakistani, Europeans around so no company outside the US will never ever go anywhere close to those kind of salaries nor should they.
Those US remuneration packages are 1. Unsustainable and 2. absolutely not the future of aviation salaries and benefits.