Originally Posted by
NERD
In this particular thread he may, just may have more insight. However, having flown with some of his peers from Compass I stand by my comments and think he's of a know it all, especially as a newb. You assume that we did not slug it out at the regionals(commuters in my day), fly night freight, flight instruct, etc. Most of us got hired under concessionary contracts, some of us have been on strike, seen the good times, knew people on the flights on 9/11(while he was probably in junior high or high school), went through ch11 with threats of and in some cases a realistic chance of liquidation, exiting ch11, summer of BOB(to get some of the worst things from ch11 changed), experienced short lived upward movement (quickly stolen by the age 60 change), a merger and all that entails(sli, joint contract, complete change of procedures, policy etc), another downturn and now finally the good times again. So yes, I think many of us have better insight overall for a new hire than him.
I have no clue concerning Oberon, his character, or what he is like to fly with. Having a personal interaction with particular individual can change how you view his/her comments on here. What he did post recently was a good post concerning those on the outside looking and hoping to get in. Especially for the FO's trying to find a way to get a TPIC position somewhere.
I don't think any of us don't think many of you have lost more than we can imagine losing. Hind sight is always 20/20 and the "good ol days" aren't necessarily so good in the midst of them. Just looking back, for some, they were good because all turned out ok to date. We definitely appreciate your insight from within, God knows I do cause I wan to be on the DL seniority so bad! Just from an unbiased not knowing anything about him view it was good information for many - especially- good regional fo's to consider.
