Pilots On Food Stamps Quotes

“A general rule of thumb is that when the flight crew is paid for one hour, they are actually on duty for three hours.  So if a pilot is paid $25 an hour (that is what Delta’s Endeavor pays their first year first officers) an hour you would actually divide that number by three to get the real hourly wage of $8.33 an hour.  That is less than what fast food workers are paid and they do not have to spend $200,000 learning how to make hamburgers.”
― Ben Mandell, Pilots On Food Stamps

“It has been eight to 11 years since the pilot first walked into Embry-Riddle and he is now making less than $35,500 a year.  The assistant manager at Taco Bell makes more than he does and he does not have $200,000 in student loan debt.”
― Ben Mandell, Pilots On Food Stamps