Originally Posted by
Aksleddriver
my personal belief is that over the last 20 years one major thing has been over looked, 20 years ago a young man or women wanted to become an airline pilot they did so knowing and was encouraged to be very flexible in life, if you lived in Florida and your next step involved moving to California, you packet up and went without batting an eye, now you see young regional pilots buying, new cars, maybe houses, having kids, all the things that lock you in. It's not that the system has changed so much in 20 years, it's that the pilots have, so the easiest thing to do in our minds is get the system to change to fit our lifestyles and needs, well good luck with that. Opportunities are still around for pilots at the major level, they just have to be willing to sacrifice to get there. Talk to any senior mainline pilot, I'm talking guys 55 plus, ups, fed-x, delta, ect. They will all tell you about eating top romen and barely getting by in there early years,
20 years ago, you didn't see "commuter" airline pilots in their 40s with 15+ years of seniority and 5000-10,000 hours of flight time. You didn't have two recessions, an oil crisis, and a change in the retirement age working against them getting "real" jobs.
Do you propose that all of these RJ pilots should have just put of their lives on hold for a decade, hoping for a chance to grasp the brass ring?
Rather than pilots expecting an industry to adapt to their lifestyle, I see pilots desperately trying to cope with a changing industry that becomes more and more slanted toward the top 1% every day. Those who came before us who pulled up the ladder as soon as they got in, only to taunt us who got left behind while feeding us scraps.