Originally Posted by
Excargodog
I know, I know, you are worried about what is going on at your own regional and what it means to you, but most people aren’t doing a lot of flying right now and you will never get a better opportunity to see business models under stress than you do right now.
From a regional perspective it may be easy to say, especially today, “H€|| I’ll gladly go to the first major that calls and then use THAT major as a stepping stone to where I REALLY want to go, but that begs the question of where you do REALLY want to go and realize after a few years seniority is going to pretty well lock you in to where you sit if you sit there very long.
And airlines DO go extinct, even MAJOR airlines. Even airlines that were once THE place to be. History Is littered with big names that were once highly desirable but nonetheless went under. PanAm, TWA, Braniff, to name only a few. And the senior guys at those airlines, after a decade or two of building seniority, often got to start over somewhere else AT THE BOTTOM.
So just a bit of advice, watch what is going on on the major threads. The cheapest experience you can get is watching what is happening to someone else.
Probably the same reason why all the major airline pilots tell their kids to never be pilots. Anywhere there is a union, there is this type of uncertain environment. If you need a union to protect yourself, it’s probably an industry that is going away eventually. Wait until the cars have full autopilot like tesla is claiming. Going to see a lot less people taking planes and just sleeping in their cars as they autopilot them 500miles. Automation is going to reduce pilots down to one with a “super dispatcher.” The end is coming in the next 20 years. Drones are already being shot off the boat to tank.