Originally Posted by
C17B74
Good thing you work at a government backed “real airline” having been hired during the easiest and greatest opportunity of all time. It’s supply and demand, obviously not experience. It’s all timing and fantastic to be hired by the conglomeration of many carriers of decades ago. Continental, USAir, Northwest, don’t discount those at a real airline like Pan Am, TWA, Eastern, heck Braniff which you would have to tap your phone for to know. Glad you boyz and galz have capitalized on all the hard work and efforts of those before you as I did with those before me it’s all timing. Your turn to move the bar forward, bring others up along with you and just enjoy your simple life. There is more than enough $ out there to float one’s boat, hopefully you have other life priorities.
*Folks have always left many places continuously and it ebbs and flows. The interesting part is that folks have had multiple Big 3/Purple and Brown CJOs this past decade and even left training for another and now some are even leaving having been on property just a few years. Interesting times.
Very interesting times. You hit the nail on the head. The older I get the more I find the younger group of professional pilots failing to be thankful for the opportunities they have. ‘Back in my day’ low pay and the continuous feeling of never getting to a better place was pretty much the norm. Now everyone has great opportunities in this “pilots market”. Something that anyone who has been around the block should be thankful for- myself included. I find it personally annoying that this next generation has a feel of entitlement. Not everyone of course, but enough to give this impression. But back on topic. We are in interesting times. ATI and ATSG management seem to be struggling to understand that we’re in a period of aviation history that is largely unprecedented. In my opinion, this is where our woes at ATI stem from. But I gotta be straight, there are managers here that do recognize this fact. However they are unable to influence the decisions of those that think in terms of “you pilots should just be happy to have a flying job”. I find it hilarious that the old school management mentality of “if you don’t like it, just vote with your feet”, are now paying out big time in training costs. Everyone is voting with their feet these days. So yes very interesting times.