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.ccording 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.
A pilus (Latin for 'hair'; plural: pili) is a hairlike protein structure on the surface of a cell, especially Gram-negative bacteria. pilus (Latin for 'hair'; plural: pili) is a hairlike protein structure on the surface of a cell, especially Gram-negative bacteria.
1 a hair or hairlike structure. 2 (in microbiology) a fine filamentous appendage found on certain bacteria and similar to flagellum except that it is shorter, straighter, and found in greater quantities in the organism. Pili consist solely of protein and are associated with antigenic properties of the cell surface.here are two kinds of pili: (a) a larger form that is hollow and found on male bacterial cells only; it is used in bacterial cell conjugation, and (b) a smaller form which is of major significance in adherence of bacterial cells to epithelial surfaces such as the intestinal mucosa or mammary gland epithelium.