Originally Posted by
EagleDriver
Glasspilot,
OK, you're an '88 hire at TWA, which means for some reason you could not or did not get hired at AA (which was hiring 100/mo), or UAL (100/mo) or Delta (50-80/mo) or even SWA/FedEx/UPS or any of the other companies that had much brighter prospects in 1988.
Why did you go to TWA in '88 and more importantly, once you built up some jet time at TWA, WHY DID YOU STAY when many observant and astute fellow TWA'ers left the sinking ship?
For one thing, UAL wasn't hiring then.
For another, at that time DAL was still holding to its 20/20 vision requirements.
In 1988, TWA had a bright future. What do you know of those years?
Many of those same 'astute' folks are now furloughed.
As long as you are on the 'let's compare companies' route, maybe you can answer this.
Why has AA killed more passengers in pilot error accidents than all the rest of the US majors in the last 10 years? Ever wondered if the 25 hours of IOE in captain upgrade at AA as compared to 90+ at TWA ever had anything to do with that accident rate?
Or another question...what happened to all of those AA recurrent training videos on how to use the rudder in unusual attitude recoveries?
How's your single engine taxi procedures coming along? Or how about push backs versus blow backs? Ever asked where those 19 tugs came from at DFW?
In my 1988 TWA new hire class of 12, we only had one person leave for another company. And that was AA...where he has since shown himself to be a typical SN jerk.
You clowns really screwed the pooch...you had 2600 folks who would have done anything for you...and all you did was screw them. Presumably, you claim a military fighter background...I don't claim it. I had it. And the one thing that was paramount in my day was that nobody ever played f*ck your buddy...if you did, you were lower than whale sh*t.
Join the whales, buddy.