Originally Posted by
IBPilot
It's always somebody else's fault.....
lemme guess...you also blame those greedy 60-65 year old guys who were flying at your airline 30 years before you were for "stealing your job" by not retiring at 60 and making way for you...
Unless you have been living in a cave for the last 10 years the only "reasonable expectations" for anyone in this industry are furlough once or twice, slashed wages and retirement, mergers, and SLI nightmares.
No I haven't been living in a cave the past ten years. More like a tunnel and that light at the end keeps turning out to be a train running my a$$ over and sucking this career even lower each time. I put up with a concessionary contract that ironically is now one of the better regional contracts.
The 60 to 65 thing was a calculated risk and would have been manageable. Parking 100 mainline aircraft while increasing regional feed was not forseeable. Again I blame management for the way they fail to run an airline, the regional pilots are just allowing themselves to be pawns used to exploit conditions and enrich the senior management.