Originally Posted by
Pogey Bait
Do you actually get to park the plane in its final resting place? Off the taxiway, into the dirt, hauling a$$ around the corner kicking up dust, engines off, dun. Is that how it goes?
No, thanks to a combination of ALPA/Bloch's ingenious seniority merger and the extreme incompetence of multiple senior management teams, I'm just along for the ride on the ground. But indeed the "marketing stops" at the pilot mills have been with planes that only have made one more flight, to Kingman, for retirement. Of course they don't bother to tell the attendees that.