Originally Posted by
Tjeff
I wasn’t trying to differentiate myself, just emphasize that it appears the majority of the new hires over the next decade will be stepping into a much better situation and we may not know any better about what’s going on at other airlines. We won’t know it’s subpar compared to DL and UA. A lot of will be comparing it to where they came from which for the majority was a way worse situation.
My original post was in response to someone stating that a lot of people hired in their 20s over 30 years ago this was their first 121 job. I don’t know what you mean with accusations of differentiations?
You will see, the number of guys who are more concerned about where you came from than where you are is too damn high. You’ll fly with a navy guy who tells you you’re only a real pilot if you’ve landed on a ship at night. Or you’ll tell a captain you flew for Piedmont and they’ll b!tch about flow through programs (although it seems like you’ll make it very well known you weren’t a flow probably in the first five seconds of conversation lol).
Then you’ll hear about USAir, legacy AA, America west, TWA. There’s so many factions in this pilot group it’ll make your head spin.
People have the ability to look at our contract and then look at another carriers and see that ours sucks- regardless of what their career looked like before. I think you should have more faith in your future coworkers.