If US Legacies can pay $640,000CAD for Narrowbody Captains and $795,000CAD for Widebody Captains, I see no reason why we couldn't see 475K and 590K CAD respectively. It's still a 25% discount to US pilot wages.CL-Skadoo! wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:20 am I agree with you, wholeheartedly. Pay needs to be addressed.
I understand they don’t get destroyed by taxation the same way that you and I are, but it is nowhere near what is encountered in the US. There’s a hell of a lot of reasons to go into looking at our markets, taxation and government policy. We’re just not the same.
I just don’t see a 500,000$ paycheque being sustainable for any Canadian airline considering the way they are run and the system under which they are run. Again, it does not mean we cannot do better though.
I would bet big money that if the U.S ever opened an easier path to a working visa for Canadians, that we would quickly see salaries like that here.