• some kid thinks pilots make 250K a year..

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:18 pm**

I was in line up to get an interview for a flight attendent position during weekend at holiday inn (toronto). I over heard this dude talking to couple of chicks that some one (who is a pilot) works 55 hours a months and he does it all in one week so he can get the rest of the month off .. And he makes over 250K a year... Also that kid reminded the girls that he was in the army and his pilot licence is inside his backpack.. (by the way he was in the same line up to hand in his resume for flight attendnet position. That was the only line up).. I'm just wondeing what was he smoking up? Anyone knows... I think he was one of those cadet kids that have a glider licence and think that they fly a F-18.... SAD..

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:34 pm**

I'm sure some pilots do...maybe in foreign countries on long-haul flying A340's, 777, and 747...or maybe i'm naive....

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:42 am**

Sounds like he was just getting his mack on. Cadet-kids are notorious for having no game.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:19 am**

scotothedoublet wrote:Cadet-kids are notorious for having no game.

I resent that.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:28 am**

I think the spelling is "represent". Don't worry, you don't need game in Thunder Fudling Bay, the gem of the North tis true.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:58 am**

Hahaha!! LMAO!!!!

scotothedoublet you're killing me!!! Too funny!!

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:10 am**

Probably a cadet kid wih 13 hours of "military" glider time lol. About the 250K for a pilot, yes it does happen but not in Canada, pre 9/11 the max here was around $230K CAN, US it used to be $240K US. These days that's been cut by 20-30%. Don't get a wet dream though, it's tough and ofcourse we ain't in this business for the money right?

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:56 pm**

You mean you can make money at this ? ........................

LOL...........

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:02 pm**

Some people do make $250K at this game. Unfortunately it isn't in Canada. Even more unfortunately it isn't me.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:11 pm**

Could always be worse, a guy could have to go do real work.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:43 pm**

scotothedoublet wrote:I think the spelling is "represent". Don't worry, you don't need game in Thunder Fudling Bay, the gem of the North tis true.

LMAO

...good line....there is really nothing i can say to it. This town hates student pilots. Or maybe its just me.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:10 pm**

Don't EVER say you're a pilot (student or otherwise). You might as well brag that you caught herpes back home at the farm. I too was once a student in Tdot Baydot. Say you drive the Zamboni at Fort William Gardens or that you lay sod in the summer and collect the pogie in the winter, they'll love you.

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:01 am**

The sad part is that some pilots do make a quarter million dollars a year!

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:43 am**

I'll keep that in mind...I guess it IS pilots and not just me...good to know. Remind me again why I am doing this?

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:38 pm**

That kid dosen't know too much I believe that due to crew rest times you can't fly 55 hours a week.

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:56 pm**

you want to make money flying, then you must go to the other side of the pond or look for those hard to find high paying corporate jobs in North America (like the one i've got

), otherwise, look for side careers to make some coin.

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:43 pm**

Shiny Side Up wrote:Could always be worse, a guy could have to go do real work.

yeah...and actually earn those figures...what a sucker that guy would be!

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:48 am**

Some pilots do make killer cash overseas. Even some 737BJ captains make over $350k US/yr. But then again the places they have to fly and live aren't the greatest either. Who wants to live in Dhahran, Saudia Arabia?

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:56 pm**

bizjet_mania wrote:Who wants to live in Dhahran, Saudia Arabia?

me!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:38 am**

bizjet_mania wrote:Who wants to live in Dhahran, Saudia Arabia?

You can only live in Dhahran if you're a Saudi Aramco employee. Dahran is the town that Aramco built, the city consists of the Saudi ARAMCO compound, the airport, the US Consulate and the King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:13 pm**

At my school if you ask any kid, they think pilots make 500k$ a year

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:19 pm**

Cathay used to pay their chief pilot 4-5 million Hong Kong dollars a year.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:18 pm**

Was chatting with a UPS 76 F/O last week at DFW... he said their skippers make US$270. And I'm sure that they don't pay 55% income tax, either.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:20 pm**

NetJet 737BJ captains make like $27,000US/mo

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:13 am**

I know someone who drives for someone rich out of YVR and pulls over 190k tax free, paid out of the netherlands.

He took a pay cut to get back to vancouver from seattle, whre he made over 300k on a G5

i flew with him... he wheres a pager... I have 5 days off, it makes a difference