How Much Money Do Airbus A350 Pilots Earn In 2026?
The pay gap between captains and first officers may be bigger than you think.
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Same airplane. Same cockpit. Same 14-hour flight across the ocean. But the two Airbus A350 pilots at the controls can head home with paychecks so far apart that they might as well work in different professions. The jet, it turns out, has surprisingly little to do with the gap, and the real drivers are far less obvious than most people assume.
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- 61 words · 1 min read
- Published
- October 21, 2026
- Byline
- Antonio Di Trapani
- Source
- Simple Flying