Best pay in aviation industry
 

According to you guys,who pays the best as a pilot in the whole industry?:E

....Air Botswana.....;)

Ryanair......of course!!!

Think it's more a question of overall package. I do believe Ryanair pay very well....however their pilots are paying to more or less keep flying, which kinda balances it out to not much.

Anybody care to disagree? :E

Pan Am pay pretty well by all accounts............:E

raf
free housing on top
free car on top
a plane to play with on top
discounts on meals on top
oh yeah money in bank every month
guaranteed i know this for a fact PENSION
no pressure on jobs(ahem)

:cool:

I think you will find the best paid are the guys from American Airlines. If you take into account all the extras it's way above anybody else.

Ryanair? I don't think so. £50,000!! No perks and flight pay that remains static!!

i agree with sikeano

i am not aware of commercial airlines suppose you got to get the money you spent to earn that license ;)

Cathay Pacific from my knowledge.

Qantas pays well too, other then the 40 odd percent we have to give away to Johnny for TAX!

Aussie

It is probably between JAL and Fedex right now. When UPS gets a new contract they will be as good or better than Fedex. A senior Fedex MD-11 skipper can make $300,000 per year.

Before 9-11 the argument for top paid U.S. pilots would still have had Fedex in it, but DAL 777 Captains were on top. USAirways A330 check airman were doing more than $300,000 as well, one or two reportedly around $400,000.

I've heard different stories about JAL Captains, maybe somebody can confirm or deny. Anywhere from $300,000 to $400,000.

Try this link for current U.S. pay scales:
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/c...section/11/91/


Typhoonpilot

Flying Fiona - Think you are off with a good 25000 on that figure...at least...

Try these:

Airlinepilotpay.com

or

ppjn.com

Sikeano,

Spot on. Don't forget that the mil don't pay tax either.

And get free childcare.

And a chauffeur when required to mount from bases more than a 20 min cycle ride away.

And a spare plane always available to play with in case the first one breaks.

As well as a gardener to tend the lands of the free house.

Excuse me while I go and shoot another peasant.

RAF? you`d probably miss him!:;)

Yip, and kill his wife and children instead, 5km's away..

So if the RAF's so good, how come sooner or later you will be applying to do what us airline pilots do?

I'm not too sure about the advantage to being the "...best-paid pilots in the industry...". Perhaps one should strive to be the "...longest, most consistently paid...". After all, a career is a marathon, not a sprint.

I used to work for a major US carrier that was widely acknowledged as the best paid in the industry. Now they are in bankruptcy, I've lost a portion of my retirement income with the rest go shortly, and the pilots still working are facing a 50% cut in those previously industry-leading payrates and the loss of their retirements also.

Did the high payrates contribute to this predicament ? Probably to a degree, but they're not the sole cause, but a part of the problem.

This is the "bottle rocket effect"...lots of flash and speed in the short term, followed by a burnout and crash to earth from high altitude. Maybe a "sparkler" would've been wiser.

Try www.britishpilots.co.uk for info on UK pay scales

As Aussie says, Cathay 'A' scalers would have to give the rest a run for their money. Just check out the 'toys' in the marina.

FD Standby,

I'm pretty sure that demobcurious had tongue firmly in cheek.

Mil pilots pay exactly the same tax as everyone else (yes, even when we're not resident in the UK but are on holiday in the Gulf for months on end fighting Blairs wars.)

Don't have kids but not sure we get free childcare either.

Chauffeur - Not friggin likely!!!

Spare plane in case the first one breaks? Well, the first one usually does break and when did we last have spare planes in the RAF? Usually we go back to the crewroom or a host of secondary duties hoping that we might actually get airborne on our next rostered trip.

Salary is ok mind but the scales started tipping a long time ago. That my friend is why we 'sooner or later' (and it's sooner these days) will be applying for the jobs you do.

Oh, the pension is good but not good enough to stop many packing it in early, what does that tell you?
;)

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So if the RAF's so good, how come sooner or later you will be applying to do what us airline pilots do?

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call it gulf war syndrome :yuk:

and i do not know what you airline pilots do as i do not work in an airline

:ok:

Did somebody say Ryanair?

Paying for your own pension (never mind the other costs of being employed by MoL) is going to take a very sizeable chunk out of whatever they pay!