User:Aviator28/Commercial aviation

Airline Wages/Regulations
There are many major airlines in the United States. The top three are Delta, American, and United. Delta Airlines has 14,561 pilots as of 2022 and has many different bases throughout the country where the pilots can live. Some include DTW, LAX, ATL, MSP, JFK, etc. The pay grades that delta has in place are based on a seniority basis along with time at the company. The pay grade is as follows, a captain working for 12 years on the Airbus A350(Delta's biggest operating plane) which seats 306 passengers is making an hourly rate of $354 whereas someone working as a captain for that same plane at one year would be making $325 an hour. Then as we look at one of Delta's smaller aircraft like the Airbus A319 which seats 126 passengers a captain on that plane at year 12 will be making $274 an hour. Whereas at year one they would be making $251 an hour. Now that is a captain pay scale now for first officers it's different for an Airbus A350 first officer year 12 they will make $242 an hour. Whereas the year one will be making $92 an hour. Now with the Airbus A319 the year 12 first officer will be making $187 and the year one will be making $92. Looking at that information we are shown that starting pay for first officer no matter the aircraft is the same rate until year 2 where they get increases based on aircraft. Now with that being said pilots are set to times they can fly each month and how much rest they need which comes from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These are as follows: no more than 500 hours a month or 1,400 a year and they can not exceed working of more than ten hours in any 24 our consecutive period.