Regional lifers. Why are they stuck?
04-09-2019 | 01:30 PM
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Even during the 2008 recession there was at least 2 regionals hiring continuously throughout the lowest of the low. Colgan, Republic, Mesa/Go Jets and Skywest were filling classes. Cfi jobs were also easy pickings for anyone with decent experience. So again this victim attitude doesn't work. If you want a job there are always going to be regional jobs to put food on the table. They may not be in your choice of domicile or the most attractive but there were jobs available continuously throughout 2007-2011. If you werent able to get hired as a cfi you were probably underqualified at that time.
Staying at a regional because you are afraid of another downturn is idiotic. A regional job is easily replaceable and is in itself no way secure. Work for an airline that writes thechecks.
Staying at a regional because you are afraid of another downturn is idiotic. A regional job is easily replaceable and is in itself no way secure. Work for an airline that writes thechecks.
Sorry for all of the capitalized words in my original post.
04-09-2019 | 02:19 PM
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Even during the 2008 recession there was at least 2 regionals hiring continuously throughout the lowest of the low. Colgan, Republic, Mesa/Go Jets and Skywest were filling classes. Cfi jobs were also easy pickings for anyone with decent experience. So again this victim attitude doesn't work. If you want a job there are always going to be regional jobs to put food on the table. They may not be in your choice of domicile or the most attractive but there were jobs available continuously throughout 2007-2011. If you werent able to get hired as a cfi you were probably underqualified at that time.
Staying at a regional because you are afraid of another downturn is idiotic. A regional job is easily replaceable and is in itself no way secure. Work for an airline that writes thechecks.
Staying at a regional because you are afraid of another downturn is idiotic. A regional job is easily replaceable and is in itself no way secure. Work for an airline that writes thechecks.
04-09-2019 | 05:04 PM
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12 years later......
I had numbered friends in class at AA that got sent back. I think originally, if you took the number you did have to go. That was all pre 9-11 though
04-09-2019 | 05:09 PM
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Each guy that took a number created an opening for a fkowback and an CA to FO displacement.
The first batch of 35 were guys who’d gone over and been sent back when classes cancelled on 9-11. Prior to 2001 they did indeed have to flow.
04-09-2019 | 05:13 PM
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Start buying metals.
04-09-2019 | 05:45 PM
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Have you looked at the credit back bubble? Or the changes at the IMF? What saved us last time wasn’t the trillions of Govt spending, that just the Govt using a credit card that you and I eventually have to pay. It was the dollar being the world currency. It’s also why so many countries have been dumping US dollars for international trade. We also lost veto ability at the IMF because Obama gave it away.
Start buying metals.
Start buying metals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/business/international/imf-breakthrough-is-seen-to-bolster-us-on-world-stage.amp.html
04-10-2019 | 05:49 PM
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Can you link me an article about Obama giving away veto ability at the IMF? The latest thing I could find was from 2016 and the US was going to retain veto ability.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/b...stage.amp.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/b...stage.amp.html
So there is hope yet... you still have five big members switching to alternate currency for international trading though.
04-12-2019 | 04:22 PM
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A regional lifer is some one who will retire at the regionals, and been employed by said regional for a decent amount of time.
Some one looking for a new career at the age of 55, joins a regional, isn't really a lifer, more of a pre-planned thing
Some one looking for a new career at the age of 55, joins a regional, isn't really a lifer, more of a pre-planned thing
04-13-2019 | 11:42 PM
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04-15-2019 | 09:32 AM
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Numbered guys were not forced to flow after hiring resumed in 2009. They were certainly pressured by those behind them, and especially by guys who had been displaced from CA to FO when flowbacks came.
Each guy that took a number created an opening for a fkowback and an CA to FO displacement.
The first batch of 35 were guys who’d gone over and been sent back when classes cancelled on 9-11. Prior to 2001 they did indeed have to flow.
Each guy that took a number created an opening for a fkowback and an CA to FO displacement.
The first batch of 35 were guys who’d gone over and been sent back when classes cancelled on 9-11. Prior to 2001 they did indeed have to flow.
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