Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests

Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by chrisseaton on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:12PM (#23969453)

Low pay, horrific hours, limited opportunities to advance, doing the same thing a million times, dead-man’s shoes, having to work against a schedule, living out of corporate hotels, unionisation, union-imposed seniority rules, shrinking market, pending automation... what is there to like about it?

Top pilots with the best seniority who can play the union game talk about achieving the same pay an undergraduate intern gets in a tech company.

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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by jfk13 on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:32PM (#23969635)

While there's doubtless something to what you say, I don't believe there are that many undergrad interns getting the pay of a senior pilot. You're thinking of an extremely select subset of tech companies.

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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by chrisseaton on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:34PM (#23969663)

Yes my comparison was with extremes... but I wouldn't bet against the average working pilot earning less than the average tech intern either.

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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by benhurmarcel on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:32AM (#23973272)

Tech salaries aren't a reasonable baseline. It's an outlier.

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