He's pretty funny when he is critical of us too ... love his description of MEL relief, which is probably about right actually.



Although he says Delta, we've never had the ability to listen in on Comm 1. The description of the landing roll out does sound very MD88 though.

The sign says "Today Hit Music" ... someone just took it literally.

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Bieber can't duck nearly as fast as our President.

Take a moment to think about what you wrote.

We have little to no retirements ER captain and above. We are parking (according to your post) 63 757s ad 9 to 12 767s.

If you were a junior ER captain why would you bid off to a lower paying aircraft? Not to mention a crappier aircraft?

Zero displacements is a management fantasy dream.

We have 9 fleets and 8 pilot bases. We have tiny AEs that result in massive training.

Going forward management has done nothing proactive. They (by their own admission) did not hire a single pilot for FAR 117.

Time will tell.

This legislation passes and the next day a couple hundred regional guys turn in their two-week notice.

Many families can't survive another 5+ years of stagnation in the right seat of a regional. IMHO, raising the retirement age is putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. It will do more harm than good.

Hoping you are right, but not betting on it.

Totally agree. Unless you're in or near the bonus round, in which case its 100% gain and 0% loss. If anyone challenges your support in that case, play the victim card as if you are the only one ever harmed by anything in the industry, and spin it so that somehow its "fair" to make the vast majority of the remaining pilots eat and therefore pay for it and have to end up working the same amount of years to pay for the stagnation they inherited to pay for the bonus round.

Proponents of further raising the age might at least have a fishing line thin tightrope of morality to walk on if all they wanted was to start over at the bottom for those "bonus round" years, but they will squeal righteous indignation over the entitlement of the very seniority they acrued for the entirety of their career with an earlier retirement age.

I sit down in one of our economy seats and it kind of looks like

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Now true story, sat down one day in a middle seat one time and I want to say on this particular jet my sitting pitch is about 3" further than the seat pitch. So my knees were jammed into the back of the seat in front of me. And I couldn't turn to the side thanks to the jet being full, my only option was to sit tall to minimize the pain but that put my head well above the seat back.

So as soon as we rotated on this 4 hour flight the 5'3" girl in front of me reclines all the way back then promptly leans over to her boyfriend and falls asleep on his shoulder. Not using the reclined seat at all. Now for the next 4 hours not only can I not put my tray table down, I can't even read a magazine unless I hold it to my nose. And how about peanuts? Well, that'd be nice but I can't open a bag if I have to keep my elbows together because my two seat neighbors have deemed the arm rest to be theirs. A drink? I can't get it around the reclined seat back. When I got off the jet, I had trouble walking.

So if I get in my seat and Timbo sits in front of me, see's me, realizes the golden opportunity he has and fully reclines his seat smirking the entire time, well, I'll patiently wait until he's asleep and then find a new use for that Skymall magazine...

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:D

Unless they buy more airframes or increase the current fleet utilization there won't be AE's, they can backfill vacancies without adding new positions.

Whether they will or not remains to be seen.

saw this at the grocery store,

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age 60. maybe we underestimate it? maybe age 65 was right.


/trolling the senior pilot's with their 1980 pin up girl

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One thing I noticed on this AE is that many people who frequent here (i.e., junior peeps) who had not been able to hold something they wanted (ATL 7ER, West Coast, MSP, etc) are now able to.

A330.. maybe not yet but soon!

Movin' on up indeed...