Originally Posted by
flapshalfspeed
I think it's hilarious listening to new hires complain about their line, their commute, their domicile, etc.. We're talking about people who have never (and will never) know what it does to your body/mind doing regularly-scheduled reduced-rest overnights at exactly 8 hours block-in to report time; people who will probably never do CDOs on a regular basis; people who have had KCM since the first month of their airline career...and people whose first 121 checkride/groundschool was in an AQP environment, instead of the "trial by fire" insanity of old school PCs/checkrides.
Anytime someone starts complaining, I ask them if they ever flew 121 before January of this year--if the answer is "no" I just laugh out loud and roll my eyes--they have no idea how much better QOL is at every regional now compared to the last 5-10 years.
Did you walk up hill both ways in snow to get to your gate? Do you remember when being a pilot was hard?