skyhigh

after reading through various threads on this message board including this one i get an impression about you.

it sounds as though you flew some bush flying in alaska for some time then flew some charter and got on with horizon. after building some time with horizon you got on with national a new startup lcc flying 757s. when national went under you were stuck in a position with mostly sic time which is worthless and had no other option but to start over again at somewhere like horizon.

you took a risk by going to national that did not pay off. at that time the thought was that national may become another southwest or jetblue lcc - that being a successful airline.

hindsight is always 20-20 but it sounds like if you had stayed with horizon you may be in a position to be getting on with someone like southwest or ups or fedex. you may even already be on with them even as a captain at this point with southwest or fedex as there upgrades are not incredibly long.

my curious question is whether if the latter were the case you would still have the opinions you currently express. you implied that dckozaks opinions and views might be skewed and thus biased because of the fact he hasnt looked for a job since the 1980s. could it also be the case that your views are biased due to the unfortunate situations you found yourself in? maybe your opinions would be different if you were in dckozaks place?