Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
Sounds like its not the young bucks fresh out of high school with 300 hours under their belts we need to be worried about, its the 40-somethings who want a neat "hobby" that pays a little something on the side....
This is a true statement. In the old days, airlines wouldn't hire people much over 30, so military guys had to get out long before their retirement eligibility in order to work for an airline. Today it's very common for retired O-5's to get out and go into the airlines. An 0-5's twenty year retirement is equivalent to regional captain pay.
If you look closely some of the most lucrative businesses in America today have one thing in common...they do not need to employ their labor for a full career, either due to skilled labor that is inherently transient (construction) or the fact that all their labor is unskilled entry level (retail, fast-food).
The airlines would prefer that we were all inherently transient...