Merger? Anyone Anyone
Yesterday | 06:16 AM
#801
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this is why I personally don’t want one, I’m trying to make up lost time for being a lost decade FO at XJT then coming to United after 11.5 years at NK but all that being said, I #1 have zero control over it, and #2 At the end of the day I’m not sure it would really matter all that much considering the shuffling around with base bids and the size of JB Pilot group mixed in with United. In the words of Joe Dirt, just gotta keep on keepin on….
💯 you and a few others get it. Nobody wants something that will impact them negatively. There is nothing wrong with saying that.
Yesterday | 06:17 AM
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I don't blame people who left for better opportunities to not want to end up junior to themselves.
Yesterday | 06:18 AM
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Less than .05% of UAL pilots post here. Please excuse the notables in this thread. The vast majority are on our own FB group arguing about expensing layover meals if the turbulence and flight time precludes crew meal consumption….I’m on record as stating a JB merger is very much on the table and would benefit UAL (yes- the pilots as well) with JFK/BOS and MCO/FLL. I fly 777s mostly out West so while it might not benefit me personally, it is a very nice compliment to our route structure. I think we will go through the normal SLI arguments and ultimately live with the arbitrator’s award. Life will go on and we will have an airline we can all be proud of.
Yesterday | 06:58 AM
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Former ACA before that so yeah.., boom. There goes a decade.
Yesterday | 07:12 AM
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Yesterday | 12:19 PM
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Funny enough the majority of everyone in their later parts of the career, even the ones that speak in absolutes about outcomes that favor them, are humble or at least respectful of other pilots less favorable situation. The issue is these young kids that got hired in United, American and Delta that are arrogant because they have a better situation and want their companies to crush others. They haven’t seen the downs of the industry to keep their mouths shut.
Yesterday | 12:39 PM
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I was just saying that the other day. Commercial and CFI in 1991. There’s been really nothing stellar. A couple of GREAT years but the vast majority over the last 30 were just sorta mediocre or worse. Timing is everything. Yes, I worked less and made more than anything else. So there’s that. But getting excited to go to work these days (I.e. I just can’t wait to get there) is just not there. I instruct in a flying club on the side. Honestly more fun and rewarding for me personally…. I planned for 60 being the tap out, which is 4 years remaining. That’s my plan anyways. I don’t want the cake. I just wanna walk off.
Yesterday | 12:56 PM
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I was just saying that the other day. Commercial and CFI in 1991. There’s been really nothing stellar. A couple of GREAT years but the vast majority over the last 30 were just sorta mediocre or worse. Timing is everything. Yes, I worked less and made more than anything else. So there’s that. But getting excited to go to work these days (I.e. I just can’t wait to get there) is just not there. I instruct in a flying club on the side. Honestly more fun and rewarding for me personally…. I planned for 60 being the tap out, which is 4 years remaining. That’s my plan anyways. I don’t want the cake. I just wanna walk off.
Today | 02:31 AM
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To be fair, I know very few people in their mid 50’s who still have the same zest for their career as when they were younger. With age, a healthy dose of skepticism and reality creeps in and you begin to see things much clearer. Spirit, Jetblue, the bottom feeders, as my buddy likes to call them represented a “what could have been” type career and when reality sets in it does take a certain wind out of your sails.
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