Garner Miller wrote:

Don Hammer wrote:

Try looking at the real killers of the company; those egotistical
union pilots that get $250K + a year for 20 hours of work a month....

Surely a group of pilots should know better than to believe that. VERY
few pilots approach anything close to what you describe, and if they
do, it's for about a year before they turn 60.

The rest of us are away from home 400 hours a month (compared to your
typical nine-to-five gone less than half of that), and dreaming of the
day we hit the six-figure mark.

Ah, yes, the "greedy union pilots."

Try being a seventh-year employee at a regional airline, flying as a
Part 121 captain, for less than 40K a year. Try and balance that
against your mythical 20-hour, $250K captain.

Lower regional airline pay and longer hours are two of the reasons the
majors have problems. Here are some quotes from an article written in
2001 about pilot pay at the major airlines:

"A 10-year captain of Boeing 737-200s makes $157,152 at Delta, and
$178,152
at United. The most senior captain, with 30 years of experience, flying
a
Boeing 777 wide-body, makes $248,040 at Delta, and $254,748 at United."

"Delta pilots are expected to top United pilots, who now stand with the
highest pay among passenger carriers."

"In September, McCain compared the 1998 per capital U.S. income of
$20,120
with the $342,000 a year that the most senior United pilots will make by
2004."

Full article he

http://archives.californiaaviation.o.../msg00010.html