Originally Posted by Albief15

I really, really like working here. I think we are the premier place to work right now.

That said, a guy looking at 1 year of 35 bucks an hour but a follow on to SDF or ANC (vice 3 years plus overseas) might just go with UPS. A guy who wants to live in a Southwest city might decide the Q of life to get here...only to return in 4 years to being the junior guy in MEM...again might be worth the risk to pass up our great security/benefits for a job at a major that has proven pretty successful.

Harder call for someone choosing between us and a legacy. Delta has good year 1 pay and a growth plan, but its a legacy--and history has shown 20+ years at a legacy is a hard bet to make pay off.

Bottom line is that if you can make the FDA thing work, this company is going to offer some folks something pretty new and exciting. If you wanted FDX because you thought you could commute from your sleepy little town and make MEM or ANC work--well--things may be different for a few years. It will be very interesting to see how age 60, -10 displacements, FDAs, and international growth change things. Bottom line is while I think the 40 or so poolies may have a shot to be domestic, future hiring will probably be primarily guys who want to go abroad. That will be a very different dynamic than we have had for years.

I do think, however, a "co-op" of pilots helping each other could probably make both domiciles commutable. Some aspiring pilot will probably get rich buying a nice country house outside Paris and subletting it into the crashpad of choice for a handful of junior 757 FOs...