Originally Posted by
dracir1
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.
Well said.
You mentioning that United is doing well Recently reminded me of my uncle. He's been at United since the late 90s. We spoke recently about how well United is doing and he reminded me that it was terrible for about 25 years. Summer is 2000, then 9/11, bankruptcy, great recession, RJs stealing all the flying, Ted, etc.
25 years of it sucking but it's been great for the past 5!
He lived in Seattle his whole career. Said he wished he'd been at Alaska until the last 5 years of his 30 year career.
A little perspective is good sometimes