Originally Posted by
Guppydriver95
The elephant in the room is the toll that working at FDX or UPS takes on one’s body over a 30+ year career. Who gives a damn if there’s a pension if a large percentage of pilots are dead by age 70. I know that for the decade I flew long haul I could feel a tangible difference in my fatigue level and overall well being. I bailed and now fly mostly domestic stuff. I’m sure that a little digging could produce the actual stats re lifespans of pilots at UAL,DAL, and AMR vs FDX or UPS. But I’d be willing to bet that freight pilots lifespans are signifigantly shorter than legacy carrier pilots.
Elephant? Cool story bro. I guess flying less than half the block hours over a 30-year career makes the lowly box hauler die sooner? I’ll take my 400 block hours a year in a widebody any day. I’m not a math guy, but 1000 block hrs a year as a pax bubba is...greater than 2x the radiation exposure? Pray tell, doctor, how is it that cargo guys universally perish at age 70?
Love to hear the uneducated stabs at cargo guys from the pax fellas. It may have been pure nights for cargo back when you rode a dinosaur to work...stick your head out of your hole and absorb some new data. Check out CURRENT bidpacks before propagating fake news.
The pension should probably be a non-factor in choosing, at least @ Purple. I’m not counting on that being there for me due to union shenanigans.
I’m sure you need to reload your quiver of Internet arrows and get back to Rachel Maddow. Cya.