Originally Posted by
JamesBond
That question has been asked for decades. I propose it is an irrelevant one because there are 14000+ ideas as to what the ideal kind of flying is. What you are really asking is why the flying is not stovepiped. There will probably be FOs senior to me on the day I retire 7 years from now. Why is that?
You are trying to tie junior captains to crappy flying, and that is simply not a complete picture for the reason. You have senior guys doing the same crappy flying. I could ask you why would they want to do that when they could downbid and make the same or even more bank.
Believe it or not, I'm not trying to do anything other than understand what's different between years ago and present. You implied there is a major difference with regards to upgrades, and their timing now vs your younger years.