Originally Posted by
Pilotpip
It's amazing how blind people are. It's only been six years and yet they seem to forget how bad the industry was. Prior to 9/11 airlines were hiring with similiar minimums and a lot of people had this mindset of being a captain as soon as they hit ATP mins and being at a major in less than five years.
All it takes is a look over at the captains I'm flying with. Many had to wait four years to upgrade, didn't get hired until they had a couple thousand hours. Some of my fellow newhires need to realize how good they have it and shut up.
Truf. When all my old primary instructors got hired as little as three years ago they were sitting on two to three thousand hours with a third of that being multi time... just to be competitive. Not to mention the six month call backs and possibility of sitting in a pool for up to a year before even going to training. Now here I am just over the thousand/hundred mark and making a
choice as to where I want to go? That's absurdly unfair!
Just take it for what it is. The current set of applicants had great timing, and it's pure dumb luck that we're in this position, so take full advantage of it because it wont always be this way... and be happy.