average salary of airline captain
Captains. Senior pilots, called captains, earn considerably more than first officers. According to the 2009 FltOps salary survey, the average maximum pay for a captain across the airline industry was $165,278.JetBlue has the lowest maximum captain's salary, $123,400.irst Officers. According to a 2009 salary survey conducted by airline industry website FltOps, average entry-level salaries for first officers ranged from a low of $21,600 at U.S. Airways to a high of $49,572 at Southwest.