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04-24-2017, 07:17 PM
#2541
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Joined APC: Feb 2017
Posts: 20
Originally Posted by Purpleanga
What?? Who's to say a 25 year old doesn't have equal amount of commitments as well? What about a 33 year old? Obviously the older guys that got DFW are probably in or around that area anyways.
It could be worse. I could have been hired at Eagle in the '90's when the market was saturated with pilots, suffered through 9/11, high oil prices, and the worst recession in 80 years, all while flying schitty turboprops on food stamp wages and getting re-assigned bases 4 times. I try never to complain in the cockpit because it's likely that the guy in the left seat did suffer through all that stuff, meanwhile I've basically hit the jackpot. And at Envoy, it's likely that the old guy in the class has already gone through all that stuff as an Eagle pilot and is coming back because the market is better. So with all that being taken into account, yeah, I'm ok with letting the old guy get dibs.
04-24-2017, 07:20 PM
#2542
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Joined APC: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,099
Originally Posted by Purpleanga
My other airline was fair and random. No older guys monopolizing the slots. Again 25 year olds can have 2 kids and a wife too. I don't think age should matter anyways, it should be fair, but for arguments sake.
04-24-2017, 07:30 PM
#2544
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,530
Originally Posted by DollaBillz
That's why I said "as a general rule." Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but the rule is that older guys have more commitments and can't move as easily as young guys can. I think it's a perfectly fair system. Sure, a young guy might have to move and that might suck a little bit, but pretty much every person I know from college has had to move for their job.
It could be worse. I could have been hired at Eagle in the '90's when the market was saturated with pilots, suffered through 9/11, high oil prices, and the worst recession in 80 years, all while flying schitty turboprops on food stamp wages and getting re-assigned bases 4 times. I try never to complain in the cockpit because it's likely that the guy in the left seat did suffer through all that stuff, meanwhile I've basically hit the jackpot. And at Envoy, it's likely that the old guy in the class has already gone through all that stuff as an Eagle pilot and is coming back because the market is better. So with all that being taken into account, yeah, I'm ok with letting the old guy get dibs.
It could be worse. I could have been hired at Eagle in the '90's when the market was saturated with pilots, suffered through 9/11, high oil prices, and the worst recession in 80 years, all while flying schitty turboprops on food stamp wages and getting re-assigned bases 4 times. I try never to complain in the cockpit because it's likely that the guy in the left seat did suffer through all that stuff, meanwhile I've basically hit the jackpot. And at Envoy, it's likely that the old guy in the class has already gone through all that stuff as an Eagle pilot and is coming back because the market is better. So with all that being taken into account, yeah, I'm ok with letting the old guy get dibs.
04-24-2017, 07:36 PM
#2545
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Joined APC: May 2015
Position: Right Seat - Low Wing
Posts: 229
Originally Posted by Purpleanga
My other airline was fair and random. No older guys monopolizing the slots. Again 25 year olds can have 2 kids and a wife too. I don't think age should matter anyways, it should be fair, but for arguments sake.
04-24-2017, 07:37 PM
#2546
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,530
Originally Posted by yeahbutstill
Not keeping up with your posts but I assume youre with Envoy now. If "your other airline" was so great, what are you doing at Envoy?
04-24-2017, 07:43 PM
#2548
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Joined APC: Feb 2017
Posts: 20
Originally Posted by Purpleanga
You're ok because you're 26. You're just happy to be a pilot in a airliner. Not everyone has your circumstance. Or in general...
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