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Originally Posted by
BuckeyeFO
F&%k yea!!! Good for you!!! Don't take the lifer lice personally. They had jacked up careers and are mad because they aren't at a legacy, so the second you make any suggestion to make things better, they take it personal. NetJets is the land of disenfranchised misfits who worked for garbage commuters 15 years ago, so they think that gives them leverage to comment on the modern airline industry and compare it to NetJets. Your chances of leaving NetJets and wanting to come back are just about zero lol.
I will add that your points were right on, and are echoed by the majority of FOs here. My entire class is on the first ticket out.
I hope you are able to get out. I spent too long here hoping for a good contract and was absolutely shocked at what we SETTLED for.
As for a lot of the captains. People came here when they were furloughed or the industry was in the post 9/11 swoon or shoddy 134.5 outfits. No one leaves a legacy to come work for Netjets. I don't think we even have a single pilot from Spirit, Allegiant, or even Frontier.
Netjets took a lot of people who were down on their luck and made them comfortable with Home-basing and just enough money (if you are a captain or senior FO) to not leave. And now that they've been captains for 15 years they act like their S doesn't stink and that we should just suck it up and be FOs for 20 years because "it's all about timing" or if we don't like it "we should just leave".
When it comes to this thread and people who are applying for a job at Netjets, the opinion of a captain or even a returned furloughee doesn't matter bc they haven't been in the position of the new hires recently enough to have any sort of idea of what they are getting into. The only group that should be speaking for what NJA will be like for applicants are the post-furlough new hires. And we are dying to leave and ecstatic to get out.
And to be fair, a lot of captains at SWA are very similar in the sense that pre 9/11, if you went to Southwest it was one of those "why, do you have a DUI or something?" for a good number of pilots. But now they all act like it was their incredible foresight that steered them to SWA and their S doesn't stink either.