I absolutely agree. Flying was a luxury before, why should it be like a bus fair now. New technology? As far as I know, we have learned how to fly further, safer, higher, faster. Does not sound like we saved a lot of money since piston engines. And yet the public expects it to be a reasonable price. Since I found out the real thruth about aviation and pilots, I am just afraid that the person who has dedicated his life towards flying so he can once forget about money and enjoy the freedom- is now probably thinking of how he is going to pay for dinner on our way down to Frankfurt.
I am not a pilot yet, so I sit in the back which means I pay to fly.
I dont know which way to hit it from but it's just not fair. How does a flight attendant at one airline with 6 month of training at most get paid the same as a co-pilot with atleast 7 years experience from another airline.
It has all been said before, so now instead of goign over the same issue ( which i just did
) - lets do something. Lets post ways that we can fight this.
Although Impossible- A true revolution would be- to see every airplane in the world cruise at 10000 feet one day, just to show the kind of power the pilots have. Unrealistic, but what if An airline did it, inspiring another airline, and so on. Since I dont see anything about strikes on news lately.
So what really stops us. There are families and children that need to be fed, educated and basically paid for. So before you think about that and accept another pay cut, just think, that the money now went to your CEO's kid's new Porche. So the managment keeps us afraid that we'll loose our jobs and have no money, why cant we do the same to them. Bottom line is, people need to fly and thats not about to change.
Pilots arent asking for 300k a year on there 3rd year of work as a Captain, but wouldnt it be nice to earn the respect form people who think that Pilots are nothing but busdrivers, after all- unfortunatly that is the image that people now a days think of, atleast here in canada.
I believe that Pilots are like a different breed of people that are not like anyone else, and while a lot of people can get mighty close to being, something very significant other than technical and professional characteristics always separates us from bus drivers.