Originally Posted by MarkThyme

And at Delta, American, and United, when they get new contracts, those won't hit the mark they set, either. Everybody will always find something to complain about. It's never enough.





Don't go somewhere and think you're going to change the company. If you want to instantly drive me nuts, just start a sentence with, "Well, at Brand X, we..." Yeah - I don't care. You're not at Brand X anymore. A company does things the way they do them because that's the way they do them until there is a good reason to do it a different way. And absolutely every company does dumb things for historically dumb reasons. The bigger they are, the more and the dumber those things get. That's just the way of the world.





Airline pilots love feeling like they're saving you from yourself by telling you not to make the same "mistakes" they made. Never mind that they're making stupid money for working less than six months a year at one of the easiest jobs on the planet.


I guarantee you that there are at least as many unhappy people at United/Delta/American as there are at Alaska, if not more, because they all have four times the number of pilots as Alaska. Airline pilots are just a congenitally unhappy bunch who don't know how good they've got it because they're busy worrying about what everybody else is getting. So do what you want to do and don't worry yourself about what anyone else thinks of it.