Originally Posted by
captnate702
Flying planes is a job. Being a commercial pilot is a career.
better career planning and you wouldn’t be in the position you are in. Coming on here every day to hate on the company you work for and yet totally unwilling to leave. Blaming management at every turn yet never looking in the mirror.
You are not some inactive entity that can only be acted upon. Commercial pilots must be proactive and hyper aware of their careers. Just like you blame management for not foreseeing the spike in fuel or other macroeconomic trends resulting in the circumstances you are in now. A commercial pilot must also analyze the macroeconomics of the industry and economy at large.
Or, it’s all just dumb luck (probably more likely imo) which airlines succeed and which fail so blaming management for not running an airline profitable enough to pay legacy rates is m utterly futile.
I don’t think the Herb, Kirby, or Crandall himself could turn F9 into an airline profitable enough to pay legacy rates. The market has shifted way faster than anybody believed and Indigo lost their fastball. Wizz and frontier had down years.
it’s not helpful to blame management for failing to foresee the collapse of the ULCC domestic model when you had the biggest hiring opportunity in generations and you failed to capitalize on it. Blaming others instead of taking control of your career is childish.
First of all, you act like you’ve never heard of a seniority system.
Second, and more importantly, look at the history of the airlines. Run that above rhetoric by an Eastern or Pan Am or even TWA, Us Air/America West pilot and you’re likely to get smacked. United is doing well RECENTLY, the merger with Continental saved them from putting thousands of workers (pilots, FAs and even more) on the street. Do you suppose when they were sucking, the pilots were thinking “maybe I shouldn’t complain about the bad decisions my company managers have made - I’ll just look in the mirror or study the obvious macroeconomic trends.” Is that what a 15 yr CA @ JB or any other pilot at a non successful airline right now should say? I’ll admit, being completely oblivious to current (and future) prognostications would be unwise but jumping ship after a few bad quarters is even more stupid.
The real sad part is, Im not really sure you realize how silly your last little diatribe was…
FYI - you gonna come on here and mgt troll, be better prepared.