Are Pilots in demand or are they in Excess?
Are Airline Pilots in Demand or are they in Excess? There are a lot of Commercial Pilots (like myself) that would love to return to fly but will not. The working conditions are absolute crap! For a Regional Airline you will be paid for flight hours but will be on duty for much longer. You will have flight time limits and duty time limits every day and often you will run out of duty time well before you run out of flight time. What this means is if you are earning say $25/flight hour and fly get 4 flight hours but are on duty for 12 hours you really are only earning $8/hr! Now to make it worse, you might fly 6 hours but only get paid for 4 hours since each route will have a predetermined flight time associated with it for pay purposes. Now add in a schedule that makes it near uncommutable: i.e., you finish on a Friday night at 10pm, next flight out is at 12pm Saturday and you are supposed to work 9am Monday but the last flight to your base is Sunday at 2pm. Your t...