Originally Posted by
Sideshow Bob
The main point was the vast difference in one day of travel. That being said, you must have noticed how many of these JB types seem to revel in the troubles at the "legacies" and tend to spout off with pride that JB will run them all out of business...not cool. As I also said I don't begrudge anyone for taking any job to feed their family, but if I were in their shoes I wouldn't take such pride in lowering the bar by taking less for about everything and advocating things like over 8 hours a day which degrades safety and further marginalizes what's left of the profession. These guys could well get nickle and dimed to death and then management will spin JB off into the rather full dustbin of aviation, and they will have helped. As for your nationalism rant, funny how you lowerd yourself to ride on Emirates...careful or you make expose a big bag full of your hypocrisy so perhaps you should mind your panel and your business. Or not.
Anyone who doesn't understand the difference between first class international travel and domestic coach travel has not done both. Of course there's going to be a difference. How could one expect any less. I understand your feeling that these JB guys should not be badmouthing other carriers, but maybe if guys didn't badmouth them, they would not feel so inclined to posture the way they do. I think it's great that guys can actually love what it is that they do. I only feel badly for my fellow professional pilots who have given so much to their profession and company, only to be sh!t on by their employers. but again, I don't think that's happened because of Jet Blue or South West. It's happened because like all gigantic ships, large companies tend to not be able to change direction very well. As far as my riding on Emirates was concerned, I really had no other choice, short of declining the travel, and thusly screwing my company out of a first officer, when they needed me to assist the captain in flying the jet back to Paris. Since we were a crew, the captain made the decision. I would have preferred another carrier, but they were the only game in town at the time.