Originally Posted by JohnBurke

Interesting, whitty, intellectual argument. Disagree with what the man has to say, and the proper response is to attack his character.

It's what people do when they have not a leg to stand upon, or the ability to enter the fray.

Why would one make the assumption that the natural path for all pilots is a legacy carrier? If someone does not rush to a legacy, there must be something wrong with them. They are broken. They are incompetent. They have a track history of failures. What is this person's defect? They're not normal. They must be discredited. Take them down a few notches. Perhaps all the way, so no one listens to them. God forbid anyone follows their example. The only path is to the legacy airlines.

Believe it or not, and clearly you two don't, there are a number of pilots who enjoy home basing, who hate to commute, who like freight, who enjoy flying at night or doing ACMI flying, and who are quite happy with low blood pressure, taking their two weeks at home without being disturbed, and who don't feel a clarion call to enter the rat race.

If this offends you or eludes your capacity to understand, that's just tough, isn't it?