Originally Posted by
NYC Pilot
It all comes down to preference. Do you want to fly a POS RJ around for the rest of your career or do you want to fly state of the art widebody aircraft to exotic global destinations that people can only dream of visiting. I'm not even counting the nice hotels, crew meals and the ease of life on a widebody. Do guys at SWA even get crew meals? To me it seems no different than a regional other than pay. It may be a good company n all but not my cup of tea.
Geez... you sure you're not recruiting for these folks?
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I mean where can you possibly go wrong....
- all widebody fleet flying all over the world (why wait 25+ years before you can get to be a flying pilot???)
- good pay (why starve your first year???)
- housing paid by the company including your monthly utilities! Who does that??!
- heavily subsidized education (or a big fat scholarship) for your kids
- chauffered to/from work in a nice, new car with your own driver. You can finally retire your 81 Honda.
- full medical and Company-provided clinic nearby to where you live, all for your convenience.
- direct entry captain position available if you're highly experienced Boeing captain. And if you're an FO... why wait? You'll be a widebody captain at a truly prestigious airline by the time you'd be able to be on reserve on one as an FO in the US.
- eye-candy female flight attendants who are actually trained in First Class service, have strict standards as to how to look, dress, speak, behave, even how to put make-up on, the type of makeup, etc. (if you're into male flight attendants, you may consider staying in the US)
- Max retirement age for those flight attendants is 42.
- confirmed Business class upgradeable to First Class when you actually go on vacation.
So on and so forth... there are a few
minor annoyances with this job, but isn't that the case everywhere?
After all, it's about living like a rockstar, fly for a truly prestigious airline... why spend a lifetime banging around in clacked out MD88's, B-737's, A-320's and be a crusty old fart by the time you reach a widebody, actually get to fly it and see cool places? Why not now while you still can?