Thread: SEA-TAC Workers get Raises, No effect on Airline Employees

Some quite interesting points here. I too took a pay cut going into aviation from a secured position shipboard with free room and board in hopes of a bigger payoff in the future. And better more stable way of life. Sometimes it pays to take a step backwards to go forward. I can't believe what they pay pilots flying commuters starting out. The industry really knows how to get them cheap. And I suppose this has to do with "Pilots are a dime a dozen". At least that how it seems to have always been when I was in aviation. It is extremely hard to get hired into the major airlines as a pilot and everywhere else pilots work, the pay is just not as good or benefits not as good. Considering nobody moves around much once in the airlines, nobody quits unless they retire or die. Very few I've seen fired or quitting on their own. They all know where their bread is buttered. I am not certain but I heard someone say that airline pilots most have a BACHELORS degree, or that the airlines prefers to hire a pilot with a degree, but I am not certain if that plays into their jobs as pilots. As an aircraft tech, all that is needed is an A&P license, which is almost like an Associates degree minus a few electives and having an AAS degree in aviation Mx Technology dosn't make a difference to work as a wrench. You either can turn a wrench or talk BS and the BS talkers don't get much respect in this business.

Speaking of diluting talent pull, you gotta figure, notice city jobs and federal jobs pay the highest wages? Who pays for their wages? You and I. I have a real beef paying a non-educated individual 15.36 P/H for running their lips all day, doing menial, unaccountable kind of work with all these benefits and job security while you have managers in McDonalds or other places like it with bachelors degrees, moving burgers by delegating their workforce, and doing accounts receivables and keeping up with the books, forcasting number of burgers to be cooked ect.....getting less benefits, much more work hours and probably less pay when you consider the work hours put in. Our system is definately out of whack. A ramper does his job working for the airlines probably starting under the proposed min wage in SEATAC of 15.36 P/H so now you bring in TSA to feel bodies for stupid items on your person, a form of high class welfare wages and benefits. I guess to keep them out of welfare since at least they are doing something eh?