>>With the Euro loosing value day by day, and US pilot salaries at very high levels, a Polar B744 captain makes much more than the same guy at Lufthansa.<<
I don't know about Polar but the Atlas guys don't make very much by U.S. standards. I ran into an Atlas 747-200 captain recently who said he expected to make about $62,000 this year. A wide-body F/O at United or Delta would make a great deal more than this. Somebody may be getting the money but it's not the crews at Atlas.