Originally Posted by
Timbo
There has never in the airline history been as good an environment to be hired into than today, with new hires getting into the right seat of the highest paying wide bodies, and getting 767 Captain bids in their first year or two.
How many (dozens?) of our new hires went into the right seat of the highest paying wide bodies? A contemplative person is forced to wonder why those positions (and 7ER Florida shuttle, 717A et al) were passed on by thousands and thousands of their peers? Maybe all actually isn’t okay in the industry?
There actually has been a better environment to be hired into, although it’s only a few years behind us. Jumping in after 2k/year of hiring isn’t going to be the same magic that the 2014-2019 hires had.
“Comparison is the thief of joy” (Theodore Roosevelt)