It doesn't have to be a gigantic piece of the pie. There is more than one way to skin a cat and flight training can be done at an incredibly affordable rate if done right with a little creativity.

You are starting to miss the forest for the trees here. The point is pilots love to look down on these cleaners, customer service, baggage handlers, etc as uneducated when the reality is that many pilots have the exact same education level as many of them...a high school diploma. Or a college degree.

The biggest obstacle for most between stopping there and attending civilian flight school is MONEY. Yes, flight training is difficult and challenging, but lets not kid ourselves...it is NOT law school, or med school. The majority of the people you are looking down on, provided the resources you had, would have no trouble going to flight school and getting to the exact position you are in now.

Tuned in for some good EWR jokes. All I got was a political/socioeconomic debate. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.

Or it started by factory workers realizing they produce for the company and are skilled now.
I really hope you don't think iron workers building the Empire State Building wanting safety improvements, is in anyway related to a wheel chair pusher showing up consistently late to the gate to push a wheel chair and dodge their next drug test, if they even have them.
For the record I am not for anyone being mistreated, but I haven't witnessed very much work ethic form the majority of the ones I've had to deal with.

Unskilled labor. The people whose job it was to pour iron or shovel coal. Just because it's dangerous doesn't make it skilled.

Yea, except they built it in 13 months. No amount of wheelchair pushers on the planet could build a 100 story building in 13 months, you can trivialize it all you want.

Your attitude is why so much of America is anti union. No one thinks the trades or craftsmen shouldn't organized, but when the Teamsters try to choke a company by forcing a guy to have a book to push a wheelbarrow, its self destructive. If these guys would lean to push a plane back for SW they could make $16 bucks an hour, but you have to pass a drug test and know more than how to flush a toilet or push a wheel chair.

I'm fairly certain I'm not looking down on anyone. I'm making no judgment on the strike or the people that are striking. Only to say where there is a will there is a way. Apperently you had all your resources handed to you, not everyone in this industry did.

Money is not the biggest obstacle, that's ridiculous. Ask my parents, they didn't have any. Ask the people in the financial aid office where I obtained grants and student loans.

I'm quite certain the skill set required to fly airplanes isn't something every human was born with. 3 years of flight instructing taught me that. It's possible some people aren't motivated enough to jump through the hoops airline pilots have had to jump through. It's possible some of us without money took a look around and decided there was a better future out there and figured out a way to make it happen.

Your premise couldn't be more ridiculous.

It does if you survive. :cool:

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Very well said. Agree with all statements.

Previous posts declaring that money is the main obstacle for everyone was pretty presumptuous.