You Can Be an Airline Pilot.

What @TankerYankr said was very spot on.

My boss's son paid the outrageous money for pilot school. All for $17,000 per year income. He wants to start trucking. But his wife doesn't want to be married to a trucker. So he flies full time and drives on occasion.

I delivered animal feed to a house with alpalcas. Owner was a Delta pilot forced to retire early. Back when Delta was struggling with union contracts. And almost became another obsolete airlines victim of the union.

 

I have very bad news for ya!

 

Which airline company offers the best lease purchase program? I wanna take my jumbo jet home whenever I want and pick my own flights.

 

Here's a video of an airline captain talking about his co-pilot on a flight who started flying when he was 57 or 58 and made it to the right seat of a 777 by 62. Dude bought his own plane to build hours though, so there's that.

 

You gotta have a big set of cojones to fly a passenger plane!

 

I asked why they got paid more and was told they fly in all kinds of bad weather because freight doesn't scream.

 

I do not fly for any airlines, just have my own small plane, and a Commercial Multi-IFR. But i know some airline pilots, a few very well, and yes the money is terrible, politics is involved for sure, and its a good thing they are single because they are not home much. My nephew is actually going to switch careers because he is tired of it all, as is an employee of mines brother, he makes half as much as his truck driving brother, and hates the conditions that he must endure.

 

One of the youngest flight attendants at Air Canada.


They assign the best routes by seniority.


And by seniority I don't mean how long they've been there.

 

FedEx and UPS are the highest paid airline pilots in the country. It's FAR harder to land a job with them than any passenger airline. They call airline passengers "self-loading freight SLF"

 

A few years ago the FAA raised the mandatory retirement age for Part 121 airline pilots to 65.

What was the big gotcha for many years was when mandatory retirement age was 60 and if your airline went bankrupt. One of the big benefits to major airlines was their real-life pension, not just 401k. If you made it to retirement the company paid you a check from their money every month. At most companies if you have a pension and your company files for bankruptcy the Feds, through Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation PBGC, would pay a % of your company pension. It's sort of like they guarantee your money that's in a bank account f the bank goes kaput. The PBGC will guarantee most of your pension IF YOU RETIRE at 65 OR LATER. The Catch 22 was the feds required you to retire at 60. So the PBGC would guarantee you a % of age 65 pension amount. So if your airline went bankrupt instead of your yearly pension of $100-200k you were getting a PBGC pension of $40-50k. There were a number of neighborhoods in Arizona and Florida that virtually emptied out due to various airline bankruptcies.