Originally Posted by
qball
Was on the Skywest JS today and the CA will be going to DAL newhire class in a few weeks. Great guy and I'm happy for him but couldn't help thinking he might be better off at UAL. Sucks that I'm thinking that way.
Everybody could say that at any particular point in time about any airline. This is just a normal byproduct of some "testiness" during contract talks. You are literally projecting today's current angst over the next 30 years? I've been here since 1997 and I could find half a dozen instances of similar (or during BK and more, far worse) situations. It still is a great job, in part due to a lot of hard work on the part of the pilots.
Don't succumb to the passions of this or other message boards, where it is usually the same 20 or so guys telling each other what they want to hear.
Since the mid 90s, I have read that United is the place to be, then DAL or AA...but hey they furloughed so SWA... yeah SWA--that's the place to be. UPS and FedEx are always great, until you read UPS pilots' opinions about their own job and mgmt... so maybe I don't want to go there...but they just reached a great TA (which is true) so maybe I DO want to go there.
See you can play that game indefinitely.