What is the typical pilot work schedule and salary?
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First of all, you must learn how to spell license. A pilot with one of the major airlines with an ATR rating and depending on the aircraft type endorsement may make between $100,000 and $150,000 yearly. You must be willing to accept an entry level position and serve a long apprenticeship before you can have any hope of becoming a Captain with a major airline. Most pilots gain experience with smaller feeder or bush airlines before attempting to hook up with a major one. I never heard of the Delta Academy. For your info, I am a retired commercial pilot with 19,000 hours as pilot in command.
It really depends on what airline and airplane you are flying. If you are piloting a 747 or an A340, the pay is about 256K anually.
If it's a smaller regional jet, the pay is aroung 128K anually.
Delta connection is mainly regional jets.
I fly for Delta and American Airlines, actually, and I fly all of their airplanes.
I fly usually either 4-6 long haul flights per week, or about 12-15 short haul flights per week.
Long haul flights are 10+ hour flights and short haul flights are less than 3 hours.
The "typical" pilot gets his degree and ratings (plan up to $100000) and then builds hours (easiest way: flight instructing) to end up at a $120000 salary 20 years down the road.
That means: you start out with a $10/hour salary - depending on your flight school, you're forced to hang around for 12 hours a day, getting paid only when you have a student, while trying to pay off your student loan and your rent...
A couple of months or years later (once you have 1000 hours), you'll start flying regional jets ($12000-20000/year) or cargo ($18000-30000/year in ancient planes in all weather) until you have enough hours to start with an airline... your pay goes down again, but once you've got some seniority, it goes up steadily until your airline goes bankrupt... then you'll start somewhere else again...
over time, your pay goes up and your hours go down, but trust me: become a pilot only if you love flying more then money!
Nerris121 is talking bull$hit.
Because of FAA regulations, airline pilots flying large aircraft, cannot fly more than 100 hours a month or more than 1,000 hours a year. Most airline pilots fly an average of 75 hours a month and work an additional 75 hours a month performing nonflying duties.
Also how can he be flying for 2 airlines at the same time?
Finally, if he flew all their aircraft he would have to maintain his rating on every type of aircraft in both fleets every year, this would require hundreds of actual and simulator hours on top of the alledged 40-60 hours a week flying he claims to be doing. Most ATP's maintain a rating for 1 or 2 types of aircraft only.
As far as Salary.
2nd Officer - $25-30,000 a year
Junior First Officer - $30-46,000 a year
First Officer - $46-92,000 a year
Captain - $92 - 200,000
Based on cathay pacific slary scale for pilots.
You ever check out the Occupational Outlook Handbook? It's an online publication of the Department of Labor. It might have some of what you're looking for. Type "pilot" in the search box and go from there.
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