Yep. Great company, definitely FOW ("Flavor of the Week") airline c.1977-80, and the one I most wanted to work for at the time. Then Steve Wolfe took over, threatened to break up the airline and sell it piecemeal. Because of that, and the general feeling of doom and gloom that settled over the company, there were several years when FT couldn't hire guys off the street to save their a$$. (I was one of them) Anybody else remember the "Save the Tiger, kill a pilot" bumper stickers in the LAX parking lot?

Then around '88, FT became part of FedEx. This was at a time when the legacies were hiring like crazy, leading to FE and UPS having their own pilot-retention problems. Southwest was having the same problem, although it was an OK place for an ex-military guy to get some 121 experience prior to applying at a major.

My, my, how time and circumstances change our attitudes on what is a "good" place to work.