Originally Posted by
graybeard
Let me ask you; do you think 32 years of flying today equals 32 years of flying that began 23 years before you considering the progress of flight ( if you can call it that)?
Maybe I am being condescending; but the pathway to the left seat 23 years before you was a much different world, but I digress.
Obviously you are entitled to your opinion; thanks for that.
It's my opinion, at some point someone deserves to maintain their seniority as some thing they have earned.
I can't wait for you to pay for that ticket after sinking around in the websites looking for some price; only to board the aircraft and see that empty seat up in Business class you could/should have had; priceless.
Lastly I'm happy for you that you have had position at the airline that allows you enough money in retirement to ignore any more economical ways of living. I would venture that the majority of airline workers (and others) are not in your position.
Some of us are condescending and some of us are pretentious.
I’ve flown with countless guys who spent 80% or more of their careers in the left seat after getting hired in the 60’s and 70’s so that argument holds zero water. United pursued people with private pilot certificates at one time.....how does that figure in your “pathway?”
Incidentally, I would argue 32 years of flying is HARDER today than it used to be back in the days of 68-70 hour lines.
You’ll be “waiting” a while because I don’t plan on flying in coach after I retire, personal choice.