Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
The point you make that I don't think you are intending to make is that this whole thing is really a crap shoot. It doesn't matter which airline you go with, any of them could be tomorrow's nightmare for your career... or not. Roll the dice and take your chances. You have little to no control over it. All you can do is make the best decision possible with the information you have today. Anyone who thinks they can predict what's going to happen in the future... whether it's an airline, the economy, the price of gold, whatever... is fooling themselves.
If that's not the point ts is trying to make, I'll do it.
Ask the "over 60" 727 s/o I flew with in 1998 who left American in the 60's to go to Braniff. If he had stayed at AMR, he said he would have retired #1. But, he said at the time leaving American to go to Braniff was a no brainier.
When I got hired in 1995, United was the place to go. People were leaving everywhere to go to United for years. Many of those pilots are still furloughed.
I'm sure there are tons of stories out there just like that that involve different airlines.