Originally Posted by
RedeyeAV8r
Many of those guys (not all, but many) have long forgotten what being away from home is like (other than the FLL PM out/back).
Look at many of those Senior Flex's in the MD11. They have been in the School house or mgt jobs for the last 20 plus years....................and teaching us how to fly in China or SFS when they have never been there.
A a few even Brag about that fact.
MY prediction is that Very few FLEX guys will quit.....except The Senior 727 Flex guys. Watch the next bid. See if they don't Bid the Bus or MD and magically become a expert flex intructor on them after 2 short months of having to fly the line.
Too good of a job to quit. Where else can you get paid as a pilot and not be one?
I know one guy that has been on the -11 from day one, 15+ years. Total MD11 time 1200:00, 800:00 Capt 400:00 F/O, not sure if he has ever been required to carry a passport.
Another guy bumped me from a trip for his fly days, both day flights, the first being NWA!
