Originally Posted by jabone

Missed kids games - right there with you missed one last night. Calling home to find out how they did just isn't the same. Birthdays, holidays - check. Missed vacations - check, IBM - Check
80+ hour work weeks.

Don't even start on the TSA harassment - at least the pilots got some concessions from TSA, the flying public - I am guilty as soon as I buy a ticket.

Most everything you mentioned is similar to my world too. I would bet it is similar to most 150K/150 segment fliers also.

This isn't "Up In the Air" and a girl in every port travel for many of us.

This would actually be really interesting. Pilots are the least public, sans mechanics, of all of the airline employees that are public facing. I don't care about the bean counters and marketing folks. And really I don't want to chat with the pilots. There job is much more than a couple of button pushes.




So I will ask again, as a consumer what should I know?