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This is confusing. What do the pilots on international flights have that those making 1/10th on regional flights lack?
Are those thousands of hours of flight time actually useful if seniority arbitrarily resets when a pilot changes airlines?
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Probably a matter of experience and certification on the bigger jets, international etc. All the regional jets are smaller, and many routes aren’t even jets.
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Probably underrated is that wages are low for those not protected by union seniority in part because flying & traveling places appears fun to significant groups of people.
Fun jobs are often crappy jobs. See wannabe actors, or game development vs rest of programming industry.
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Also they probably get allowances while flying, still. 15-20k is bad.
The overtime exceptions these companies get while the companies are already protected by using limited public infrastructure is glaring.
But we should keep in mind 20k is the median waiter salary. This could be seen as ~equivalent (if skill premium and fun discount cancel out).

