Originally Posted by
767pilot
Interesting point. I guess it has to do with the fact that it is much more desireable tohold on to a job with a decent schedule and pulling in 250k than it is to hold onto one that is a lot harder than it used to be and only pays half as much as it used to. You are right though and I don't recall hearing Prater spin it one way or another, it is the "haves" that seem more interested in this than the "have nots"
Hey, you're no fun!! Stuff like this is supposed to turn into big nasty arguments!! (j.k). You saw it for what it was, just a talking point I certainly don't have the answers. What I have realized the longer I do this is, that we pilots have a history of making bad financial decisions outside of the cockpit with the best of intentions and remarkably little ability to learn from those mistakes in the same way we learn from others. And dammit if we aren't confident in those errors-a very frustrating thing imo considering that we are in a necessarily unionized industry. Collectively we have power and intelligence but our intrinsic personalities haven't allowed us to effectively leverage it outside of flying the bird. I think I got a few triple word scores of my own in there-who says public college isn't effective?