So a bipartisan bill gave us (airlines) many billions of free money. Explain this to me. I want to know what bipartisan means.

There’s a plan. It’s pretty good IMO. Stay home till end of April if your not essential. After that it’s soft openings that are state dependent implemented by the governors. Using common sense. I.e. social distance when able, no large crowds, and no hand shakes. This whole time implementing massive testing. Can we at least get past April without arguing politics? Both sides need to be putting forth thier best ideas then implementing them ASAP.

I don’t get this false choice either. It’s like the world must be one way or the other. This is an absolute false choice and we should call BS on those asserting it as an option.

Passenger counts dropped off, the NBA closed, casinos closed, all happened BEFORE any politician acted.

If even those private actors hadn’t acted, as soon as people started dropping in larger numbers, or getting turned away at hospitals, and when more cities looked like Italy or NY, there is no way John Q Public was going to “keep on keeping on”. And who knows how long THAT recovery would take?

We elected and empowered leaders for a reason. Many people didn’t want to enter WWII, either, and were inconvenienced by their businesses being taken over by the government or the war ending the lives of them or loved ones. The remedy is to vote in other people who will manage the crisis better, not convince ourselves we are smarter than experts empowered in the system under which we agreed to be governed.

This is like whining about the rules in the Super Bowl. Petition the commissioner, appeal, or cry to the media, but do it AFTER THE GAME.

Suck it up, we are all in it together and we will all get through it together.

Disagree with this part of what you said.

Experts must always be subject to scrutiny, because in spite of the title "expert," they are fallible. Experts are experts, by definition, in a very specific field of study. They are useful for that precise purpose, beyond that they must be balanced with wider perspective.

The answer is not only elections either. US policy has been moved many times by 1st amendment demonstration and protest. It's part of who we are as a nation, body and soul, for better of worse.

Blind obedience is stupidity.

You're ignoring the mortality rate aren't you? Enjoy the panic...and the street. :D

Don't panic but your about to get furloughed. That’s funny. Who’s the one panicking again? We knew the mortality rate would decrease once we actually started testing. We knew that well over a month ago. This is good news, we can start to open up again. What’s the problem? If your argument is we should have never shut anything down I’ll just have to disagree. No problem.

Its not panic if its the obvious result. Im at 50% so I may or may not get furloughed. Thanks for responding. Anything else?

So you may or may not get furloughed. That’s always true. Me too and it sounds like I’m senior to you.

If we have to furlough 50% of the pilot group for any considerable amount of time, it won't matter if you are number one on the list.

Exactly. I agree.

That’s exactly what the guys at Mountain Capital told me.

Curious what the overall vibe was that you were getting from them? They have their finger on the F9 pulse more than anybody that doesn’t normally work on the 5th floor of the Emerald Palace.

Well, hopefully you aren’t one of the typical pilots that can’t live off of min guarantee, or on FO pay when you are right seat again or get by for a few months or a year without that job. Many that are “50%” seem to have this bravado that they are untouchable. We are in no man’s land as far as the industry is concerned and when NY is your main bread and butter, B6 is definitely in as much pain as the rest. Hopefully you were smart and have multiple income streams or have been an above average saver to have a year of emergency cash.

Well said

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I would like to know this as well haven’t called B yet but any update would be appreciated

Fredo agrees

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/...nt-quarantine/

Between the false machismo and spelling errors, this is post is Darwinism at work.

Oh wow. Another ignorant indoctrinated millennial polluting this forum.
Defending a person's unalienable rights is not false machismo.
Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of sick people.
Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people. Thats what you are supporting.

Are you working at the present time? Spelling error aside, it is a true statement. We can either stay home or get out and get the economy going again. I am sorry that 2016 ruined your life but it greatly improved mine.

Still waiting for people to use the 2nd amendment like they claimed they would

1. It's inalienable.
2. Your inalienable rights end the moment you infringe on others' rights to safety. Driving drunk is illegal because it infringes upon others. So is being a dumbass in a pandemic.

I would be all for your rights to expose yourself to COVID, if you weren't a contagion threat to others. Your coworkers. The liquor store clerk where you go to buy your handles of Wild Turkey. The nurse who will try to save your foolish ass when you inevitably come crawling to the hospital. If you could guarantee that you wouldn't expose anyone else, then you have my blessing to go remove yourself from the gene pool in the name of capitalism.

3. I am a little shocked that so many pilots are so foolishly brazen during this crisis. One of the key responsibilities of our jobs is THREAT MANAGEMENT. And ya'll are turning off the radar as you approach a line of thunderstorms.

1. https://grammarist.com/usage/inalienable-unalienable/

2. Are you flying empty planes around right now ? If so you are a hypocrite. Oh but it's an essential service??? Well YOU should quit because you are putting your income above the health of others. Sounds like a bad case (that many of you leftist suffer from) "OK FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE".. Quit being a Karen. No one is putting anyone's life in danger by going back to work. If you are scared then stay home. If you are working then shut it and quit infringing on people's rights. It is disgusting.

3. I am a little shocked that you actually write a check each month to pay for that student loan. You might can win a spelling bee but you got a bad dose of socialist indoctrination in the process.


https://babylonbee.com/news/infograp...-actually-mean

Haha nice revisionist history.

Not really. They never were the party of "large government". Maybe you should read up on history a little bit more.

And a month later still getting more massive every day.

What about being an a$$h013 during a pandemic?

As in the craft of said nurse’s chosen profession? I have no sympathy for anyone having to do the job they chose, especially jobs that require professional certification.

You’re also being a virus shamer. It doesn’t matter how the person got the virus (or got fat, or got worse), they are a victim.

Brazen? Turning off the radar? My radar says I can wash my hands, cough into my sleeve (or wear a mask), not shake hands, maintain a healthy lifestyle, self quarantine if I am sick, etc. But I don’t have to cancel the flight.

Are snowflakes allowed to post here?
I thought you had to at least have a Commercial ticket.

I hope all this makes you feel better about yourself. God bless

And Im sorry this hype has ruined this career for many of us. God bless- we'll all need it.

You are missing the point, not that I don’t agree with you. I think it is overhyped also to an extent way beyond what it should have been. But you are acting like a child who isn’t getting their way. Intimidating other crew members that may have underlying conditions by saying, “no masks on my flight deck” or slamming people because they didn’t get hired at B6 and somehow in your mind you view Frontier or NK as a inferior job. We all are pilots, fly basically the same equipment, make roughly the same amount with lots of outside factors beyond our control. If anyone is acting like a snowflake, it’s you.

It’s not revisionist history, he’s actually correct. The political parties are just shells, the constituencies move around through the years. Rather than focusing on the party names the key is to focus on a constituency like social conservatives. Prior to LBJ, social conservatives were Democrats but since then they’ve become almost exclusively Republicans. Strom Thurmond is a great case in point. We’re in the middle of another major reshuffling of the parties and their constituencies now with Trump’s Republican Party.

What about Robert Byrd?

What about David Duke and the rest of the KKK?