Originally Posted by
Avroman
True, but now pull that same 63 year old international captain out and put him in a Saab in Memphis in July with a 7 leg day. You'll probably find yourself in a single pilot airplane because that captain just kicked over with heat stroke and a heart attack. Look we all do a job. Some things are very similar some are different. Personally you can keep your long haul international flying. I'll be very content to finish my career in nothing bigger than a 737 or A321 and never leave North America. But that's just me. I have no desire to spend 13 hours at a time running a whale between the US and Japan.
You could probably say the same of you, oh CRJ900 captain. That's about the time you guys start to get arrogant--making captain on a CRJ. That brings up a whole other point: leaving the country--malaria and the various bugs which can get you out 'chonder. Yet another reason to demonstrate how the jobs are different, and thus higher compensation on the widebody.
The 63 year old will learn the saab much faster than the 22 year old will learn the mass management, worldwide ops, language tricks, weather phenomena, topography, metrics of the 777/767/A330.
We can play the bigger schwartz contest all day, and you'll lose. You've already missed the point, so why bother?