Originally Posted by
nene
Circa 2016/7 they rolled in a cake in the international briefing rooms in ATL for a A330 CA that was having his 40th year anniversary and was #1 in ATL on the A330 but still had 3 years to go till 65!
He gave a very short speech that basically said started young at a small airline that was bought by Republic that was bought by NWA, that merged with Delta. One interview at 22 lead to a career with 4 uniforms so far.
I flew with one of those guys. The DTW bubbas know the other Joe. He was hired at North Central in his early 20s to fly Convairs. Then got merged to Republic -> NWA -> DAL. Great guy who was just happy to be here.
Originally Posted by
StoneQOLdCrazy
Please God and Baby Jesus don't push for time-and-a-half above X hours like a bunch of short-sighted clowns at a former red-tailed airline used to do...along with ranting about SOPA/SMAC
I've never understood their infatuation with that pay scheme. What was it, 75 hours? 80 hours? Either way, that is WAY too much to even get to that 1.5x pay.