Originally Posted by
CBreezy
Exactly. He failed at getting hired during the last major boom when he was still too inexperienced to get hired at a major. Then he failed to get hired in 2001 during one of the biggest consolidation and pilot furloughing periods of the last 30 years. Then, he failed to get hired 7 years later when the economy tanked and the airlines continued to not hire. Shame on him for not wanting to go to a major when, in the previous 2 decades, all they've done was not pay their pilots to sit at home and take pay cuts ad infinitum
Couldn't have said it better myself. I was going to ignore the troll, but you nailed it.
I am sick and $%&*&%$ tired of hearing big shot mainline pilots talk about how much more "vetted" they are or any other entitlement adjective they want to insert. Fact is, they were at the right place, at the right time, and knew the right people. I didn't. Period.
Everyone knows a crusty 767 (only) Captain like Lambourn couldn't pass training on an RJ if his life depended on it. His 1983 technology 767 with autoland and autothrottles perfectly suits his technical and flying skills. This could be said about most of the crusty mainline Captains who look down their nose at us and tell us to pay our dues. They don't get it and will never get it. They got theirs. F the rest of you. Typical pilot mentality.