Originally Posted by
Probe
Well Airspeed, since I have flown for 2 national flag carriers and the military, and you haven't, I would suspect my opinion might, have a little bit of validity. Since you are on American and Delta boards discussing getting hired, you look at a US legacy job as a panacea. There are lots of happy pilots in China, and other places. They are paying you, so you do it their way. Period. It is part of being a professional. No expat flying in China is doing it against their will. They are all volunteers, including you. If you don't like it, you can leave. I won't rant about UAL, there are UAL boards to do that. But after flying at both UAL and a Chinese carrier, I much prefer the Chinese one, even if the money were the same. The biggest negative in China is it is probably the least secure job in the world. That is one of the reasons it pays so much. Good luck getting your "dream" job.
You do realize your one of the VERY few actually I think the only person I have ever heard of that would prefer a Chinese airline over UAL.
Then again I am the only civilian to ever go out and fly a Mach 2 single seat combat fighter with absolutely zero training, have multiple system failures on my first flight, and break Mach 1 all at the same time.
So I guess we are not the norm are we?
Having said that I now refer to your thing about doing it their way. The Chinese way (slow as hell, way too conservative) the Japanese way (over complicated and way too anal) and then you need to find a balance where you satisfy safety, their way and the correct way.....
Yea I am a volunteer. So are the soldiers in combat but that doesn't stop them from writing about the atrocities of war now does it.....