Originally Posted by cwthomas
So im sitting here as a 19 year old reading all this, WANTING to be a pilot. It sounds like after I get out of the service, if I want to make any money being a pilot, I need to go overseas. I'm just curious as to why that is? Are there no Low cost airlines like Southwest over there, so they all still pay high wages or wat? It sounds like what is going to happen to me, is all the airlines are sooner or later going to be like Southwest (low cost everything). Right now people are loosing there jobs, and taking what they can get at other airlines (jet blue, southwest ect.) When every one is fighting just to HAVE a job, no one is going to be willing to put it on hold and demand for better pay. So ne ways once all the airlines conform to the new way of running things, pilots will all have stable jobs and that is when the unions will finally be able to kick in. If my guess on what is going to happen is correct, i hope it happens in the next 6 years while I am in the service training.
lol don`t worry, there will always be obstacles but aviation will also always be here, in the states its just that at this point in time there is plenty "supply" and not enough "demand" here is the type of obstacle you will have to overcome, --you remember the chicken and egg deal--well i got to 60 FAA decrees(notice the pompous type word
) no more airline flying for u buddy boy, --grumble mumble, lol anyway toodle on down to Dallas, pay 16,500 for a Learjet 60 type, at the end of which = much hoopla about now you can take command of a LR60 and mosy off into the sunset, --yeah rite--soo put my resume up on a lot of websites and settle in to wait for the tirade of requests for your hero, who by the way has 20,000+ turbo-jet TT well for one month --nada then a few calls that go like this 'I see you have a LR60 type"---yep--"great and how many hours do u have on it"--ahh like O
---MORAL= U need a job to get the hours, BUT you need the hours to GET the job?????