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JetBlue joins Air Line Pilots Association
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-22/airline-mergers-pushed-jetblues-pilots-to-join-a-union
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-22/airline-mergers-pushed-jetblues-pilots-to-join-a-union
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That is like comparing apples with orangutans. Somewhat different clientele and different goals. The pilot transports the cargo (autoload or not) from point a to point b and is done with it- a relatively straightforward task. The doctor's task list is 'somewhat' different - working to keep the 'cargo' from shuffling off this mortal coil prematurely.
Apes and oranges...
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I don't think it'll ever get better Phil, it started downhill in the 90's with this pay for training crap and morons who were willing to work for free!!!
Absolutely not true. A teenager can undergo a limited number of hours of flight instruction and get a license to fly a plane solo.
A doctor must complete 13-14 years of basic schooling followed by four years of college and four years of medical school. Then their training isn't even over. Then they start by earning $25k-$45k for several years as an intern/resident to continue their training on the job.
Pilots don't spend 21-22 years of schooling followed by 3-5 years of on the job training (making under $50k) before they can fly solo. A physician must undergo all that training and experience before being able to practice medicine in a solo practice.
So the oxlong's comments are just plane wrong. Completely and absolutely wrong connivery measure. Physicians put in 11-15 years of trianing after high school (most of that time having to pay tuition for the medical education received) before seeing more than $50 grand a year.
It is possible to create a pilotless flight deck that would fly the entire flight from airport to airport. (Not that it would be well received by the flying public but the function is easily mechanized.)
The judgment of a physician in accurately diagnosing a wide variety of patients with all kinds of ailments takes much greater knowledge, analysis and judgement.
I would even go so far as to compare pilots with bus drivers and truck drivers.
1) Many buses have many more passengers (55-100+) than a largest proportion of planes including most business jets, private planes and regional airline passenger planes.
2) There are many more accidents on surface roads that a bus can encounter than crashes mid-air that Coukd potentially foul up a plane's flight.
3) There are many more idiotic drivers of other vehicles that travel in much closer ptoximity to the buses, that a bus striver had to contend with every day, and that most pilot will not ever have to deal with in an entire career of flying.
So if anything, by your criteria most bus drivers should be paid much more than most pilots. but as far as your comparison to doctors, your commentary was completely off-base and just plane wrong.
A doctor must complete 13-14 years of basic schooling followed by four years of college and four years of medical school. Then their training isn't even over. Then they start by earning $25k-$45k for several years as an intern/resident to continue their training on the job.
Pilots don't spend 21-22 years of schooling followed by 3-5 years of on the job training (making under $50k) before they can fly solo. A physician must undergo all that training and experience before being able to practice medicine in a solo practice.
So the oxlong's comments are just plane wrong. Completely and absolutely wrong connivery measure. Physicians put in 11-15 years of trianing after high school (most of that time having to pay tuition for the medical education received) before seeing more than $50 grand a year.
It is possible to create a pilotless flight deck that would fly the entire flight from airport to airport. (Not that it would be well received by the flying public but the function is easily mechanized.)
The judgment of a physician in accurately diagnosing a wide variety of patients with all kinds of ailments takes much greater knowledge, analysis and judgement.
I would even go so far as to compare pilots with bus drivers and truck drivers.
1) Many buses have many more passengers (55-100+) than a largest proportion of planes including most business jets, private planes and regional airline passenger planes.
2) There are many more accidents on surface roads that a bus can encounter than crashes mid-air that Coukd potentially foul up a plane's flight.
3) There are many more idiotic drivers of other vehicles that travel in much closer ptoximity to the buses, that a bus striver had to contend with every day, and that most pilot will not ever have to deal with in an entire career of flying.
So if anything, by your criteria most bus drivers should be paid much more than most pilots. but as far as your comparison to doctors, your commentary was completely off-base and just plane wrong.