Airline Pilots in Britain's Top 10 Salaries
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After 30 years in aviation I've seen how we all got here, from paying huge sums of money for training, flight instructing for peanuts, even joining the military and allowing people to try to kill you just so we can log some flight time (my route). It's all the same.
My inescapable conclusion? Aviation is an addiction worse than heroin and we are all junkies. Nothing else justifies the irrational economic and life decisions we make to get and stay here.
We should all be in methodone clinics.
And I still like going to work. God help me!
My inescapable conclusion? Aviation is an addiction worse than heroin and we are all junkies. Nothing else justifies the irrational economic and life decisions we make to get and stay here.
We should all be in methodone clinics.
And I still like going to work. God help me!
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Jenny B
You do seem to have an attitude on you.
For the record I paid @ £4500 for my ATPL thanks to military exemptions and I do not have rich parents. I dreamt of being a pilot from early childhood and was lucky enough to have the aptitude and be medicaly fit. The rest came through hard work. I gross over 100K now so I'm quite happy with what I earn thank you very much but I still happen to believe we are underpaid. The military boys very definately are. Thats the market though and you can take it or leave it, in that respect you are right.
Rananim and Merlyn are right in what they say, it is an aspirational career. People dream of flying and because of this spend large sums of money to achieve it. No matter what we are paid many people will still do it just for the love of flying. It is that deep desire that Mr O'leary et al have been able to exploit.
In my experience many of the young chaps and chapesses I now sit beside have sacrificed a great deal and incurred significant debt in order to be there and have their shot at their dream. Way more than any doctor or lawyer I know and I am married to a doctor. I admire them for that. None of them that I know are whingers but then maybe they don't have rich parents! It is of course their choice but I do hope that the rewards are there for them when they are able to climb further up the ladder.
You do seem to have an attitude on you.
For the record I paid @ £4500 for my ATPL thanks to military exemptions and I do not have rich parents. I dreamt of being a pilot from early childhood and was lucky enough to have the aptitude and be medicaly fit. The rest came through hard work. I gross over 100K now so I'm quite happy with what I earn thank you very much but I still happen to believe we are underpaid. The military boys very definately are. Thats the market though and you can take it or leave it, in that respect you are right.
Rananim and Merlyn are right in what they say, it is an aspirational career. People dream of flying and because of this spend large sums of money to achieve it. No matter what we are paid many people will still do it just for the love of flying. It is that deep desire that Mr O'leary et al have been able to exploit.
In my experience many of the young chaps and chapesses I now sit beside have sacrificed a great deal and incurred significant debt in order to be there and have their shot at their dream. Way more than any doctor or lawyer I know and I am married to a doctor. I admire them for that. None of them that I know are whingers but then maybe they don't have rich parents! It is of course their choice but I do hope that the rewards are there for them when they are able to climb further up the ladder.
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"not a job just for spoilt little boys with rich mummies and daddies who squeal that they're not paid enough money or respect."
Jenny - So I take it that only the "boys" are spoilt? What about the female pilots? Are you going to make a sweeping statement about them aswell?
Sounds to me like somebody got dumped by a pilot......
Dont be so blooming narrowminded
Jenny - So I take it that only the "boys" are spoilt? What about the female pilots? Are you going to make a sweeping statement about them aswell?
Sounds to me like somebody got dumped by a pilot......
Dont be so blooming narrowminded
