Airline Salaries

[A4sForever]

This changes all the time and is posted for informational purposes only. It provides perspective on the diffenent rates paid among the listed air carriers. Dated as of 10/2003:

Airline Facts, Source: 2002-2003 Salary Survey

 

[Dawgfan]

$18,344 a month would be nice. I'm not sure what I would do with it, probably blow most of it on Washington state scratch tickets.

 

[webmaster]

Man, no wonder so many ppl like FEDEX..... too bad I wont have the hours for THEIR minimums...

 

[Physicx]

If you have a couple of friends that will sponsor you and you have 1000 turbine pic you will be golden.Here is a better website with updated pay scales.At the top click airlines.And wait till UPS and Fedex get there new contracts.

www.airlinepilotpay.com

 

[A4sForever]

Man, no wonder so many ppl like FEDEX..... too bad I wont have the hours for THEIR minimums...

Yeah, tell me about it .... when FedEx switched from Falcons to 727's, they did their training with Braniff @ Dallas Love Field. I was one of the instructors and one of my students was the "new" Chief Pilot for the "new" FedEx Boeing fleet. He, unsolicited, offered me a job --- said "give me your resume and you'll have a home at FedEx" ..... and I said "No thanks, I'm pretty happy here at Braniff"..... how stupid can one man be ????

(edit) I used to think "hauling trash" (flying freighters) was beneath me --- and I wasn't alone --- f;ying freight wasn't for those formerly flying in the guise of "our Nation's finest" Naaaaaaa ....... freight was for washed-up, can't get a "real" job, lousy lay-over in Cincinatti in a crumby company apartment, hot-bunking with 5 other guys and the 60 year old flight engineer who sits in the dirty chair in the "living room" watching cartoons on Saturday morning ..... no thanks. And then I flew frieghters, 727s and 747s and I learned the beauty of cargo that won't sass back and no flight attendants ..... plus, in days past, a significantly "looser schedule".


What else is there to say ..... ?????

 

[USMCSNA]

Man, no wonder so many ppl like FEDEX..... too bad I wont have the hours for THEIR minimums...

Yeah unless you have your ATP, don't even bother....The big boys won't hire you with a commercial and then have you get your atp.

 

[webmaster]

At this stage of the game, throwing down $8k for my ATP is not something I would blink an eye at. Too bad the days of getting your ATP while on your first tour in P3s are long gone....

 

[KBayDog]

It certainly makes me want to stay in the military for a while. I'm getting paid more right now to be a flight student than many of the companies pay their entry-level pilots. Plus, they're paying for my food, housing, insurance, and (oh yeah) flight training. The job security isn't bad, either... I'd like some TSP-matching, but hey - "You Can't Always Get What You Want." Overall, I'd say we have it pretty darn good.

Let's just see if I have the same cheery attitude when I am making the multi-million dollar Schnuggapup salary, and I want to transition into the A4s minimum-wage air taxi business.

 

[HAL Pilot]

At this stage of the game, throwing down $8k for my ATP is not something I would blink an eye at. Too bad the days of getting your ATP while on your first tour in P3s are long gone....

It's only 8 grand if you want to throw in the 737 type with it. It's about $1,300 for the quick course at ATPs.

 

[A4sForever]

Yeah unless you have your ATP, don't even bother....The big boys won't hire you with a commercial and then have you get your atp.

Actually, overall it hasn't changed much ... in the late '70's, to be competitive, you had to have: ATR/ATP, a good fixed-wing type-rating, MEL, FE (not too many FE required quals now ??) , over 2000 hours JET/turboprop time, great recommendations from airline pilots, a four-year degree (master's was better), and be younger than 31 years old. These were not hard/fast ... but almost.

And, at that time ---the Military got preference --- usually. I can think of a couple exceptions --- and they were outfits where the Chief Pilots were not former military ...