A380 captain's pay

Interesting article here on the arbitration case between Singapore
Airlines and its pilots. The court ruled SIA must pay A380 captains
more than 747 captains. Duh? If it's bigger, heavier and has more
seats that should be a no-brainer IMHO, unless of course the airline
is trying to contain labor costs. I was amazed to see their monthly
base pay of $10k for 747 captains. $120k/yr to fly a 747? Even
allowing for per diem and other stuff, SWA's 737 captains make a lot
more than that...


http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...paid-more.html

Kingfish wrote:
Interesting article here on the arbitration case between Singapore
Airlines and its pilots. The court ruled SIA must pay A380 captains
more than 747 captains. Duh? If it's bigger, heavier and has more
seats that should be a no-brainer IMHO, unless of course the airline
is trying to contain labor costs. I was amazed to see their monthly
base pay of $10k for 747 captains. $120k/yr to fly a 747? Even
allowing for per diem and other stuff, SWA's 737 captains make a lot
more than that...


http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...1/court-rules-
singapore-airlines-airbus-a380-pilots-should-be-paid-more.html

SWA captains don't live in Singapore.

On May 25, 10:39 am, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
Kingfish wrote:
Interesting article here on the arbitration case between Singapore
Airlines and its pilots. The court ruled SIA must pay A380 captains
more than 747 captains. Duh? If it's bigger, heavier and has more
seats that should be a no-brainer IMHO, unless of course the airline
is trying to contain labor costs. I was amazed to see their monthly
base pay of $10k for 747 captains. $120k/yr to fly a 747? Even
allowing for per diem and other stuff, SWA's 737 captains make a lot
more than that...

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...1/court-rules-
singapore-airlines-airbus-a380-pilots-should-be-paid-more.html

SWA captains don't live in Singapore.

Of course. The commute would be hell...

In a previous article, Kingfish said:
Interesting article here on the arbitration case between Singapore
Airlines and its pilots. The court ruled SIA must pay A380 captains
more than 747 captains. Duh? If it's bigger, heavier and has more
seats that should be a no-brainer IMHO, unless of course the airline
is trying to contain labor costs. I was amazed to see their monthly

I dunno - a 380 or 747 captain spends most of his flying time on autopilot
up in the flight levels. They probably get as many approaches and
landings in a month as your average Dash-8 or Beech 1900 pilot gets in a
day. In a world that valued skill, you'd have the guys fresh out of
school flying the 380s, and when they got good enough they'd fly commuter
airlines until they got *really* skilled, then they'd fly Aztecs doing
freight dogging.


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that particular aircraft. If subsequent flights do not appear likely,
there are no limits."

Paul Tomblin wrote:

I dunno - a 380 or 747 captain spends most of his flying time on autopilot
up in the flight levels. They probably get as many approaches and
landings in a month as your average Dash-8 or Beech 1900 pilot gets in a
day. In a world that valued skill, you'd have the guys fresh out of
school flying the 380s, and when they got good enough they'd fly commuter
airlines until they got *really* skilled, then they'd fly Aztecs doing
freight dogging.


As a former Aztec flying freight dog, I thank you for your kind comment.
There's a lot of weather between the surface and 8,000 feet.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Kingfish wrote:
Interesting article here on the arbitration case between Singapore
Airlines and its pilots. The court ruled SIA must pay A380 captains
more than 747 captains. Duh? If it's bigger, heavier and has more
seats that should be a no-brainer IMHO, unless of course the airline
is trying to contain labor costs. I was amazed to see their monthly
base pay of $10k for 747 captains. $120k/yr to fly a 747? Even
allowing for per diem and other stuff, SWA's 737 captains make a lot
more than that...


http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...paid-more.html

Pay is always based on the location of the job. Software engineers in
the US make 75K but in Bangalore they make 5K. Why would it be
different for pilots?

On May 25, 8:22 am, John Theune wrote:
Kingfish wrote:
Interesting article here on the arbitration case between Singapore
Airlines and its pilots. The court ruled SIA must pay A380 captains
more than 747 captains. Duh? If it's bigger, heavier and has more
seats that should be a no-brainer IMHO, unless of course the airline
is trying to contain labor costs. I was amazed to see their monthly
base pay of $10k for 747 captains. $120k/yr to fly a 747? Even
allowing for per diem and other stuff, SWA's 737 captains make a lot
more than that...

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...court-rules-si...

Pay is always based on the location of the job. Software engineers in
the US make 75K but in Bangalore they make 5K. Why would it be
different for pilots?

Where can I get a software engineer in the US for 75K?? I've been
trying to grow my U.S. team for quiet some time but even six figure
saleries don't generate a lot of response. BTW: Saleries in India are
rising very fast. Our top engineers in India will make almost the same
as a top engineer in the U.S. India has a lot of talent (i.e a lot of
people coming out of the universities) so its attractive to be over
there to have a large pool to hire from, but the days of cost savings
are pretty much over. The new hot spot for hiring programmers is the
old Soviet block. We do have some people in China but the language
barrier is too great.

-Robert

Robert M. Gary writes:

Where can I get a software engineer in the US for 75K?? I've been
trying to grow my U.S. team for quiet some time but even six figure
saleries don't generate a lot of response.

Are these telecommuting positions?

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On May 25, 2:46 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Robert M. Gary writes:
Where can I get a software engineer in the US for 75K?? I've been
trying to grow my U.S. team for quiet some time but even six figure
saleries don't generate a lot of response.

Are these telecommuting positions?



The odds of you getting hired by anyone who has seen you post on
usenet are long indeed...

Gary writes:

The odds of you getting hired by anyone who has seen you post on
usenet are long indeed...

I didn't say anything about me.

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