Originally Posted by
RedGuy
Sounds like that's what he went there for. That's what I'm looking into also. I know you guys ***** and moan about how bad it is, but I personally can't imagine it being any worse than flying on demand cargo.
Originally Posted by
Yzerman
I live in base, so that makes things better QOL wise.
Every CA I have flown with here has been great, and they have all taught me a thing or five. I have thoroughly enjoyed flying with everyone in this pilot group. FAs too, for that matter.
Could things be better... of course. I'd like to get paid more for what I do. And hopefully I will soon. Could things be worse... absolutely. And they WERE worse before I came here. And with all the things going on here I can see why 9E would be an employer to avoid right now. But it isn't hell, at least for me.
sorry things didn't work out for you professional pilot. thats to bad. hopefully you will find what you are looking for. i will tell you all how my life has been here like yzerman.
i was hired late 2005. at the time the contract negotiations were moving fast. the contract had only been ammendable for about 5 months and they were ta'ing things left and right. even when i was in the school house the mec would come in to class and tell us they had ta'd several more things and that everything was moving fast. i couldn't hold mem when i first started so i had to commute to dtw for several months and be on reserve up there. that sucked pretty bad. being on reserve, away from home, in a crash pad is no fun. finally i was able to come back to mem and sat reserve for about 6 more months. reserve sucked then too but my qol shot way up just by being based at home. when we were doing hard line bidding i was holding 12-13 days off a month. when we switched to pbs in i think it was june last year it went up to 17-19 days off a month. i have been doing that since then.
this place doesn't bother me that much. probably because i hardly ever work. do i want things to change? yes. i want a contract and i will do what it takes to get one. am i ready to strike and walk out of this place. yes, i would not feel bad for shutting this place down because of the way they treat their people.
like yzerman i have flown with a lot of great people. in the time i have flown here i have only had 2 captains that really bugged me. the rest have been great and really smart pilots. especially some of the senior guys in mem. we have everything from crop dusters to b-52 pilots and all of them are good sticks and good teachers.
so there is my opinion of this place. its not the best, but it is far from the worst. and all the people who keep saying this place is going to be gone by the end of the year sound like the same people that said we were gone when nwa filed for bankrupcty. this place isn't going anywhere, unless we get to shut it down ourselves.