Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
Exactly my point, thanks for making it. There is a big difference between extending the age by 2 years and losing your pension due to your company going bankrupt. The age extension would be a blip(some it helps, some its hinders) a banrkutcy wiping out ALL QOL, ensuing 48% paycuts anf loss of pension would certainly be closer to the definition "ruining a career.
Or are they both the same to you?
That was 20 years ago…the people that really got spanked are long gone. I was stuck at a regionals for 15 years during the lost decade. That was 15 years of virtually no retirement savings. I’m not prancing around in a pout.
I’m also not jealous people are here holding Captain at 25 years old. Good for them.
All you want is to take advantage of someone else because it happened to you and feel entitled to do so. Take that mentality and go….I intend to leave the pilot group better than I found it.