Originally Posted by
maxjet
If I were a young man, I would ride the Kalitta train for a few more years. When things start to decline, as they inevitably will, I would make the jump with my pic experience over to brown or purple.
Ha. Just like <finger snap> that?
News flash! Airline hiring is arbitrary and capricious. You may win the lottery and crack the code on the first try, but cold hard statistical averages says it will take you THREE tries before the average pilot lands a job where he spends the rest of his life.
And God have mercy on your soul if something like 9/11, economic turn down, etc occur before you crack that code.
The vast majority of pilots do NOT have that kind of control over their careers.