He should always be paid more than other crew members too! That HAS been the case for decades. Should prevail now too.
Jagman in a perfect world yes that would be true, but here at Cathay it is far from perfect. You have some A scale FOs flying with B scale captains, so take a wild guess which one would be earning more. As a B scale captain will that infuriate me? Not in the very least!
Yes agreed the captain has the final word, but when someone refers to their job by using words such as "commander", "in charge of the ship", these words do nothing more than blow sunshine up your a
. It needlessly elevates ones position to justify ones self importance. You are joe blo employed as a captain by Cathay Pacific, nothing more, nothing less, and when the airplane comes back down to earth after a flight, so should the captain flying it.
The above has some relevance to this thread in that once those who want to extend beyond 55, and are financially well off, grasp the fact that there is much more to life than being a Cathay captain, then perhaps the need to extend isn't that attractive.
Liam,
After 5 pages of the same grown-up argument a couple of threads that's slightly off topic is not the end of the world.