Originally Posted by
cr700
The honest response he wants is nothing like your post. We are now hiring 70 plus per month. The movement that will generate is incredible. You can expect Envoy to hit the 3 year mark on upgrades in 2017. Flows continue unabated. Envoy is absolutely the best career choice you could make. You won't even realize 5 years have passed here and then you'll be at AA.
Once again, the carrot and the stick. Never mind the horrible quality of life you will have for five years, you will have FLOW! As if those five years of your life you will never get back are meaningless because you will be an AA pilot afterward. Tell me, how much is missing one of your kids grow up from 0-5 worth?
Realize that this posters response is likely from a bitter and angry person who didn't have the luxury of 2.5 year upgrades and 5 year flows to AA.
No, you don't get it. I'm HAPPY that a new hire won't have to go through the lost decade at a regional like we did. I'm bitter and angry because of the broken contractual promises, threats to our livelihood during a time of record profits, union busting, and general treatment by management like we're the enemy instead of mutually dependent employees. I'm bitter and angry because management won't admit any responsibility to destroying the morale at this company, or that it has even occurred. I'm happy new hires might have an easier career than we did, but that's due to management destroying the pilot pipeline with low regional wages and the majors now having to gobble up regional pilots due to retirement, not due to management understanding they have disincentivized this career field.