Originally Posted by
squib
Yea this whole thing sucks with covid but this is how this industry is and always has been. People these days have been sold on bonuses and quick upgrades with a flow to a major without looking back at the history of the industry. One event can throw a wrench into the gears and grind everything to screeching halt as it has several times.
Imagine there was once a time when you needed 2,500 hours plus turbine time to get hired at a regional only to make $22/hr with no signing bonus. It wasn’t that long ago.
Heard this a thousand times, I have no empathy. Those who worked for $22hr as a pilot deserved exactly what they got paid. If pilots wouldn’t sell their souls to fly a shiny jet we wouldn’t have such absurdity. $22 an hour is why I avoided the airlines all together and went military first.