Originally Posted by
Psycho18th
Check of the month club here. Grew up watching my dad navigate the controller strike, B-scale, end of Flight Engineers, 9/11, concessionary contracts, bankruptcy, loss of retirement, bird flu, swine flu, etc over his airline career. So, I hope I’m eyes open about negotiations. Still my first airline and first contract negotiations. The best vicarious education I’ve found so far is reading Hard Landings, and the two volumes of Flying the Line.
Good on you. I wish everyone would have read those books. As a matter of fact, if I were king I’d make it mandatory reading before being accepted into an airline pilot union.