This bus thing in LAX sounds like The Hunger Games..

Id like to say it’s not that bad, but it is. The lax employee bus is a special kind of hell. For an entire year I exclusively rode the lot c bus. Shoot even now I’ll only take the employee bus TO the airport and the lot c bus FROM the airport.

I've never been waterboarded, but I imagine it's like taking the employee bus over a 30 yr career, just condensed into one moment. The eagle bus is a bonus punch to the gut to remind you that you're a mere regional pilot

But I try to make the best of it all, this is me and my G2 homies at the eagle bus stop in T5

http://i67.tinypic.com/30c0nk2.gif

Yeah, but then again you don't have to deice in the hub, so that balances out the traffic, housing prices, gate delays, and flow delays, right? :confused:

Lets not give any more credit to the Smurf agents than they are owed; they are not LEOs. Only the FAM service (including FFDOs) operate in a Law Enforcement capacity, under the TSA.

Sarcasm detector inop...

yeah I was hoping the sarcasm was so thick it was dripping off in globs to congeal on the ground in a smelly mess.

Believe me, I don’t give them more credit than the deserve... I’m hesitant to give them ANY question.

My favorite TSA interaction occurred in LAX at terminal 3 shortly after the Delta move.

*while going through KCM scanning my badge for a 5:15 AM show time*

TSA Agent *while viewing my ID*: "You seem a little young to be an airline captain."
Me *due to the early hour, my filter hasn't yet finished its BIT*: "Well, that's because I'm not a real captain."
TSA Agent: "What do you mean?"
Me *realizing that answer might not have been the best thing to say to the person responsible for verifying my airline credentials*: "Well, I don't get paid like one!"

Fortunately I got out of that one with a chuckle and fortunately didn't have to explain the whole regional vs. legacy pay scales for pilots to that TSA Agent at 5 AM, but I know it easily could have happened. Now I've learned to say "Thanks. I just got my Botox shots yesterday." It is LAX after all!

Based on this thread I can see that Compass has a pilot group I could get along with.

I submitted an application on Friday and am anxious to hear back, anyone know when that might be? I read that a few months ago the recruiting department was quite busy and could take a little while to process applications.