WenWe,
Surely not ALL engineers should be on Captain's pay! There has to be some element of progression.
Nevertheless our compensation package for First Officers was fully revealed in cash terms in Rumours and News recently. I couldn't help noting the fact that our First Officers' salary, including all allowances and benefits, is higher than that of the Director of Engineering. (and all the other Departmental Heads apart from the Director of Flight Operations) Surely that shows a slight element of disproportion? I just came out of a presentation on costs given by Airbus in which it was revealed that flight crew salary exceeds the total accumulated cost of ALL engineering by a factor of 27%. We were told that in some countries labour rates are only US$10 an hour!!!! Now I'm not suggesting that pilots are overpaid, nor whingeing about their salaries. Flight crews are NOT overpaid. Compared to others with similar backgound and responsibility in the economy in general, flight crews are paid what they are worth. It is the rest of us in the aviation world who are being taken for a ride, and it us that are picking up the tab for the punters cheap air fares.
De-regulation? Don't make me laugh!
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