The FAA has revoked their licenses. They can protest this, but I rather suspect it will be an uphill fight for them...presuming they've bothered to look up from their laptops over the past couple of days to even notice the ruling.
Northwest Airlines pilots miss airport
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10 years is considered mid-career, and it lands in the six figures in the majors. Where are you getting your information?
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For a start the co-pilot who crashed in the icing incident was getting $17,000. An aquaintance of mine has been a pilot for about 10 years and gets $30,000 -- half the starting pay for a teacher.
Try this on for size: Pilot salary scales for American Airlines (a comparable carrier in most ways to Northwest, for which data were not available):
http://www.willflyforfood.com/airline-pilot-salary/87/American-Airlines.html
The airline in the Buffalo ice crash was a cut-rate cheapskate outfit, and their pilot compensation practices quite probably contributed to the crash by forcing pilots to log too many hours.
Pilots at major commercial airlines make a hell of a lot more money than your average mid-career civil servant can ever hope to.
caw
http://www.willflyforfood.com/airline-pilot-salary/87/American-Airlines.html
The airline in the Buffalo ice crash was a cut-rate cheapskate outfit, and their pilot compensation practices quite probably contributed to the crash by forcing pilots to log too many hours.
Pilots at major commercial airlines make a hell of a lot more money than your average mid-career civil servant can ever hope to.
caw
Average teacher salaries, U.S., by years of experience.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary/by_Years_Experience
See how easy finding real factual information about stuff like this is?
caw
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary/by_Years_Experience
See how easy finding real factual information about stuff like this is?
caw
Yeah, Colgan Air is not one of the majors. That's a commuter line, also known as a regional carrier. Do you know the difference between NWA and Colgan Air or American Airlines and American Eagle?
These guys were senior flight members serving on a national carrier, on a published cardinal route--not low-hour crew in a regional carrier trying to build up enough hours to make the transition.
If you acquaintance has ten years of service and he's still only making 30K, ask him if he (or she) has an ATP, or just a commercial ticket. In ten years with jets, he could make the move from a regional carrier to a fractional outfit like NetJets and fly Gulfstreams or BBJs for six figures. This is presuming he or she has over 5,000 hours time.
Don't mean to be snooty, but I think your information is suspect.
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