{"id":392055,"date":"2026-03-23T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/salaries-commercial-widebody-captains-major-us-airlines\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:00:17","slug":"a-look-at-the-salaries-of-commercial-widebody-captains-at-major-us-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=392055","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The Salaries Of Commercial Widebody Captains At Major US Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span>, the largest single driver of a pilot&#8217;s pay is seniority, and as a rule, only senior pilots fly widebody aircraft. A typical pilot&#8217;s progression in career starts out with smaller aircraft, moving onto larger aircraft. The pilot may become a Captain of a regional aircraft, but go back down to First Officer on a narrowbody. They may then become a narrowbody Captain, before going back down again to First Officer on a widebody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many, becoming a widebody captain is a the final stage of a pilot&#8217;s aviation career and when they earn the highest salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,565,423,1876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-united-states","category-widebody"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392056,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392055\/revisions\/392056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}