MaddogCaptain

I just wanted to comment on the guy who passed up the ANC class to wait for a 727 SO class. Sounds like it worked out OK for him but I would like to emphasize for anyone who is a potential applicant out there who may be coming out of the military and who may not quite fully understand the system, seniority is the very air you breathe in this business. Your entire life is based on it. I remember when the furloughs went right through my class and guys who were on the bottom half of our class were out of work for about a year and a half and those of us in the top half of the same class were still working. The difference in a few months seniority can really make a difference in your lifetime earnings of a million dollars and a drastically different lifestyle. Not to mention that the airline industry has always been littered with pilots who were left in the pool and never hired at all. If you get an offer for a class date, I don't care what airplane it is, what seat or what base, take the earliest date and get that number and you can stand on your head for a year if you have to. Never pass up a class date.
Just my advice.

pilot141

MadDog Captain speaks the truth.

For all of you FedEx wannabes out there: take the first class date you can get!

It doesn't matter what airplane you get when you first show up; all that matters is your seniority number.

Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint. Think long term....

Ranger

Roger that. Take the first seniority number you can lay your clammy little hands on. And if you decide that you don't want to stay at that company keep sending out the resumes. That was my tact. Flight instructing, charter, commuter, non-sched, going out of business legacy and finally the last job. When I got hired at FedEx my wife took me into the spare bedroom, pointed at all of the uniforms hanging there and said "No more. This had better be the last one." Needless to say, it's worked out pretty well.

sandman2122

Ranger, sorry about leaving one of my uniforms hanging up in your spare bedroom - your wife said she didn't mind I always wondered who the others belonged to............oh, geez, I'm just joking!!! That was an easy setup.



I kid, I kid, i kid

Adios and congrats newhires!

Ranger

OK, go outside and practice falling down and bleeding. I'll be along directly. Just as soon as I finish my Jack on the rocks.