...Lady Gaga plays a mean piano....
Posted on 10/15/2009 11:25:48 PM PDT by ozguy
Michael Moore's pointing out something no one in the media seems to want to discuss: How little money the people who are flying commercial planes are getting paid. As he says, these are not the people you want working a second job:
We're on the descent from 20,000 feet in the air when the flight attendant leans over the elderly woman next to me and taps me on the shoulder.
"I'm listening to Lady Gaga," I say as I remove just one of the ear buds. I know not this Lady Gaga, but her performance last week on SNL was fascinating.
"The pilots would like to see you in the cockpit when we land," she says with a southern drawl.
"Did I do something wrong?"
"No. They have something to show you." (The last time an employee of an airline wanted to show me something it was her written reprimand for eating an in-flight meal without paying for it. "Yes," she said, "we have to pay for our own meals on board now.")
The plane landed and I stepped into the cockpit. "Read this," the first officer said. He handed me a letter from the airline to him. It was headlined "LETTER OF CONCERN." It seems this poor fellow had taken three sick days in the past year. The letter was a warning not to take another one -- or else.
"Great," I said. "Just what I want -- you coming to work sick, flying me up in the air and asking to borrow the barf bag from my seatback pocket."
He then showed me his pay stub. He took home $405 this week. My life was completely and totally in his hands for the past hour and he's paid less than the kid who delivers my pizza.
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I want you to quit ordering so many french fries. I am sick of waiting in line.
These new jets have auto pilot, can’t they help serve drinks?
...Lady Gaga plays a mean piano....
Moore doesn't like paying, yet the pilots should be paid more money.
Such an idiot.
I call total BS. Moore is a master of misleading propaganda.
Check out Airline Pilot Central. It has pay scales of Capts and FO for the different airlines.
Hey Michael, quit taking up two seats.
Isn’t it against the law for airlines to advertise their safety record? What if it weren’t? What if you could pay twice as much to fly on a ten times as safe airline?
Can I take El Al everywhere?
Sorry...but this pos pegs out the BS Meter.
Not buyin’ or believing any of it.
Here ya go...
Delta attendants don’t. (not while they are working)
I thought the same thing... This is too good to be true for Moore who will no doubt spin this into more money, that evil capitalist..
Or else what?
If this letter does in fact exist he or his union has grounds for a lawsuit. Or even more intimidating to the company, an FAA judgment.
The FAA would love to hear about it, since that kind of pilot-pushing is blatantly illegal.
Havent looked at that site, but the pay scales vary a great deal, depending on what type of airline the pilot flies for. The “bigs” like United, etc. pay fairly well, but the regionals like United Express, Delta Connection, Horizon, and so forth, pay darn little. New pilots get on with the regionals and build time toward moving up to the “bigs”.
I still would doubt anything Moore says, though, just on principle. I’d be very surprised if that swine even flies commercial at all. He seems like the Gulfstream Liberal type to me.
Check out Airline Pilot Central. It has pay scales of Capts and FO for the different airlines.
I did.
As much as I hate to agree with this big fat jerk, it's true that beginning pilots make slave wages.
You get what you pay for. Just don't fly with a regional airline that pays those kind of wages, especially if the weather is bad.
Oh wait, good luck with that. The code-sharing agreements nowadays almost always have the low-time pilot 'commuter airlines' feeding passengers to the bigger hubs, so it's not so easy to avoid flying on them.
I am going to hate myself for saying this, but Moore is correct on this one. I have almost 30 years in the industry. Now I am going to take a shower and wash my mouth out with soap.
Well, if scum like Moore force government run health care down our throats, doctors may have to work two jobs also.
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