Dose it make any difference if I'm displaced? I'm not upgrading or changing equipment voluntarily.

There is no vacation available after I complete training. If I can carry it over to the next year that would be great. Since I'm sitting at home until April with pay I don't want them to give me my vacation befare I start class in April (If I do start class.) I'm essentially on vacation now.

 

Dam straight! Dude, I just did my taxes and I'm the guy Obama wants to get at so hell if im going anywhere or doing anything that knocks me out of that bracket, like going to mainline. I'm here because mainline didnt have the forsight to keep all jet flying within there ranks so now I'm gona take advantage of there short sightedness(really have no choice). As a matter of fact just broke ground on my vacation home so if you think i'm gona start over under you butt and make 35 a year good luck there. There gona have to drag me out kicking and screaming. Take this with jest my fine fellow I'm in a situation I never planed on and along with 3000 other guys in my shoes I prob speak for allot, but since I'm here I'm gona make the most of it.

So don't expect to see me carrying any signs asking for the regional to go away unless u give me date of hire. My 12000 hours came at allot of pain(money) and sacrifice now its my time to enjoy and I've been lucky never been booted to the street. I have a ten year contract ahead of me less a major BK I'm siting pretty, you can have the 787 and the 16 hour flights. I enjoy my flights up and down the Atlantic coast and being home. If a BK happens so be it. I would have to start at the bottom anyway so why make it happen sooner rather then latter?

 

Mainline pay for mainline equiptment! If you agree to fly these aircraft for regional wages, you're doing serious damage to your own career progression.

 

What I do is none of your business CaptainCarl. If you are allready out, why don't you run along and stop calling yourself Captain?

 

Plus at 60 I check that little box of that says "Have you ever fainted or felt faint in the last six months" HELL YEAH! I DID CHA CHING! if I make it that long.

 

This needs to be a sticky in the majors forum. Don't give up scope!

 

FirstOfficerCarl just didn't have the same ring to it, you know what I mean? I'm playing the game for the left seat, not the right. Good luck on your job hunt, with a personality like yours I'm sure it's going to turn out fantastic

 

That's right, you go right on ahead and take advantage, just like all the other selfish fools out there.

Never been furloughed? Well, let's just hope you never do, 'cause it sucks. Hard.

Seriously though, how the hell did you manage to rack up 12,000 hours and never make it into the Majors? Too scared to make the jump?

 

I really believe you CaptainCarl when you say you haven't been in the industry for quite a while after you make a statement like that.

 

It will be Compass flying the new planes for AA, and I'd wager there will be 190s in a 2-class, 88-seat configuration involved. I hope for all involved that I'm wrong.