http://project7alpha.com/2009/05/airline-pilot-shortage-looming/ American Airlines in Burma 1942 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:55:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://project7alpha.com/2009/05/airline-pilot-shortage-looming/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Chip Thu, 28 May 2009 16:35:47 +0000 http://www.project7alpha.com/?p=425#comment-128 Mark; Exactly! Do the math for a widebody and see how little they pay to an FO for flying them from one continent to another. It has reached a tipping point. Mark;
Exactly! Do the math for a widebody and see how little they pay to an FO for flying them from one continent to another. It has reached a tipping point.

]]> http://project7alpha.com/2009/05/airline-pilot-shortage-looming/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Mark Wed, 27 May 2009 06:59:39 +0000 http://www.project7alpha.com/?p=425#comment-127 The Flight 3407 aircraft was a Q400 that has 74 seats. If the flight were full, each passenger would only have to give the First officer 28 cents to get from Newark to Buffalo to pay her for the flight. That is how much they pay for the F/O per hour of flight time. Many pilots out of courtesy will tip the Hotel van driver $1 for a 10-15 minute van ride to the hotel on the layovers. Now if they extend that courtesy to a van driver why can't passengers be allowed to extend that courtesy to the flight crew? People are probably paying more for their little bag of pretzels or peanuts on the flight than they do for the First Officer. Crazy! Maybe that is where the saying paying me peanuts came from. The Flight 3407 aircraft was a Q400 that has 74 seats. If the flight were full, each passenger would only have to give the First officer 28 cents to get from Newark to Buffalo to pay her for the flight. That is how much they pay for the F/O per hour of flight time. Many pilots out of courtesy will tip the Hotel van driver $1 for a 10-15 minute van ride to the hotel on the layovers. Now if they extend that courtesy to a van driver why can’t passengers be allowed to extend that courtesy to the flight crew? People are probably paying more for their little bag of pretzels or peanuts on the flight than they do for the First Officer. Crazy! Maybe that is where the saying paying me peanuts came from.

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