This is Ridiculus
05-20-2008 | 03:01 PM
#31
Line Holder
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 937
Likes: 5
From: Standing in front of the tank with a shopping bag
Crystal Ball IMC
Yeah Carl P,
I'm right here witcha' in IMC, Vacuum failure, raw data...
Who knew that the mighty Pan Am, Eastern, and TWA would fall. Who could have predicted UAL, DAL, NWA all filing Chapter 11?
On the flip side, who would have predicted the rise of the fractionals as being some of the best places to work...?
What this shows is that we truly are "ALL IN THIS TOGETHER". When even one pilot is laid off, it devalues our entire profession and allows management to say "Hey, we have people who will PAY to do your job. This is where we get pay-for-training and foreign workers taking seats up in "ATP" programs. You couldn't get an entry-level multi job in the early nineties because of all the foreign workers taking up seats. As ERAU churned out CFI every three months, they ended up working at Taco Bell because foreigners were paying to instruct.
While this seems like a deviation to the thread, I am just telling these cautionary tales because 15 years ago doesn't seem so far behind us anymore, and it may come back to bite us...
In Unity,
B727DRVR
I'm right here witcha' in IMC, Vacuum failure, raw data...
Who knew that the mighty Pan Am, Eastern, and TWA would fall. Who could have predicted UAL, DAL, NWA all filing Chapter 11?
On the flip side, who would have predicted the rise of the fractionals as being some of the best places to work...?
What this shows is that we truly are "ALL IN THIS TOGETHER". When even one pilot is laid off, it devalues our entire profession and allows management to say "Hey, we have people who will PAY to do your job. This is where we get pay-for-training and foreign workers taking seats up in "ATP" programs. You couldn't get an entry-level multi job in the early nineties because of all the foreign workers taking up seats. As ERAU churned out CFI every three months, they ended up working at Taco Bell because foreigners were paying to instruct.
While this seems like a deviation to the thread, I am just telling these cautionary tales because 15 years ago doesn't seem so far behind us anymore, and it may come back to bite us...
In Unity,
B727DRVR
05-21-2008 | 10:42 AM
#34
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 2,349
Likes: 16
Agree, it's one of those things where I'll probably kick myself in a couple of years (or sooner). My wife and I want to live in Minneapolis close to our families. With the merger, I won't have to commute (eventually). I want to fly internationally again at some point, too.
SWA is at the top of the heap right now in pay, etc...but history indicates that they can't stay there forever. Or so I tell myself...
And--very silly reason--I don't want to fly the same airplane for the rest of my career.
I'm sure those reasons sound lame, they would if I was reading them. But I'm at peace with the decision.
SWA is at the top of the heap right now in pay, etc...but history indicates that they can't stay there forever. Or so I tell myself...
And--very silly reason--I don't want to fly the same airplane for the rest of my career. I'm sure those reasons sound lame, they would if I was reading them. But I'm at peace with the decision.
05-21-2008 | 11:04 AM
#37
Underboob King
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 4,412
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From: Guppy Commander
