{"id":400677,"date":"2026-04-06T23:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/salaries-pilots-us-big-3-airlines-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:30:18","slug":"a-look-at-the-salaries-of-the-us-big-3-airline-pilots-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=400677","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The Salaries Of The US Big 3 Airline Pilots In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot pay has always been one of the most closely followed and debated aspects of commercial aviation. With major labor contracts being renewed and a persistent shortage of qualified flight crew, 2025 was another milestone year for pilot earnings. Salaries at the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/big-three-us-airlines-salary-guide\/\" >&#8216;big three&#8217; US airlines<\/a> &#8211;<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span>, and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> &#8211; have climbed to record levels, driven by demand and strengthened union negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are in a fierce competition for top talent, and pilots are reaping the rewards.<\/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":[396,476,636,565,240,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-north-america","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400677","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=400677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400678,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400677\/revisions\/400678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}