Originally Posted by
Mesabah
I don't see any event on the horizon that would have anywhere near the results of the last decade of destruction on the piloting profession. Neither another recession, or even a 9/11 would have a significant negative impact on your career. The bad things happened over the last decade plus, because of scope relief, the raise of the retirement age, and the legacies shedding the pension plans.
Single pilot airliners are the next big threat, who knows when those things will be online. There needs to be an all new ATC system first, and you know how fast .gov operates....so you are pretty safe.
I appreciate your optimism. I'm about 14 months out from sending my deets to the regionals and there is definitely much more uncertainty about their future right now, not that that is inherently a bad thing, but that is more to the forefront of my mind right now. The upside is that by about the time I would reasonably expect to have a class date at a regional, I should be sitting on about 2200-2400TT with most of that being multi-turbine PIC (very big and busy DZ), so maybe I will be able to explore other avenues besides regionals to reach the majors.
In the meantime...save a seat for me at AA, please!
