I think that in the very least, salary, compensation, benefits and the minimum required experience to enter the airline flight deck should be regulated.
When i worked on the Regional Airline level i made $18,000 my first year there... by the close of my 3rd year there i was barely making $23,000... another 3 years i would have met my salary cap for seat and equipment at under $30,000.
When you consider that a pilot (in this example) is only being paid while actually flying... and you compare that annual figure to the number of hours i was actually on duty (ie. physically required to be on the job) you will find that my annual salary equated to a little over $7.xx per hour.
ad into the mix that you have thousands of 20 something year old men and women out there who say
1. i could be a doctor... but thats 8 years of medical school i cant afford
2. I could be a lawyer... but that means expensive law school
3. I can be an airline pilot in 24 months for about $40,000 worth of education
they generally go with option 3
this floods the market with individuals - some of whom i know personally - that are quite grossly unqualified for the job... some of them... down right incompetent!
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