Originally Posted by
Biggs
You know whats amazing. Untill this post it seemed that only a few of us guys on the bottom truly thought about furlogh. It seems the rest is just sailing through life and might wake up one day and say oh Sh!T. How is it that so many people can't see what might very well happen, especially the ones that will be effected. I think they have been sold "it can never happen at UPS" and truley believe it.
First of all, it's the American way...look at the whole money fiasco. Refinance as a form of income and then act surprised when the well runs dry.
Having had my first (unfortunately not last) furlough 18 years ago I get it. In many career paths in this business it's like death and taxes...they WILL come, it's just that you hope one is on the front end of several years and the other on the other
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Stability is the whole reason I sought this place out when 90% of the rest of the crowd was drooling over UAL, AA and DAL. A CFO friend of mine (who didn't know or care about airlines at the time because he was in the tech biz out here in CA) did an overview of the companies (not just pax carriers) that hired pilots, and in '90 told me to seek out (in order) a job at UPS, FDX and SWA and then a small handful of corporations with dedicated flight departments due strictly on their balance sheets and business models. It's no accident that IMO UPS will be the last operator to furlough, if at all.
Having said that...I keep my CFI current, so even I'm a bit paracautious when it comes to this business.
