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My wife is an Airline executive and I just showed her your post, she had a good laugh about your comment on labor and wages. Labor is the 2nd greatest cost afte
by hourislate 9y ago
My wife is an Airline executive and I just showed her your post, she had a good laugh about your comment on labor and wages. Labor is the 2nd greatest cost after fuel. There are a lot of pilots making well over 100k - 250k+ a year. The problem is not cost. They can pass that along to the customer. It's union contracts.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThe top 25 legacy airline executives make, cumulatively, a bit under $90 million/year. The average annual wage per airline employee is about $60k/year. The median pilot wage is ~$120k/year (the average is ~$80k/year). EDIT: (crew is the lowest component of per hour flight time) B757-200 FOC Costs per block-hour of operations (avg. 186 seats): CREW $ 489 FUEL $ 548 MAINTENANCE $ 590 OWNERSHIP $ 923 TOTAL FOC $ 2550 per block-hr Ref: https://www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2017/Aviation%20Data%20and%20Analysis%20Seminar/PPT3%20-%20Airlines%20Operating%20costs%20and%20productivity.pdf https://www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2017/Aviation%20Data%20an...
- hourislate 9y agoThis information maybe accurate for Iran but I highly doubt it is accurate for US Airlines.