The career as you described it no longer exists. pilots at all carriers, even the "good" ones, work more, earn less, and have less job security than their forefathers before them.

aa hiring 1500, WOW.
5 years equal 300 per.
300 per equals 150 from street, minimum 150 from eagle.
off street 750 over 5 years, WOW big news.,

This doesn't make sense. If anything, ALPA would be fighting to get them hired at an ALPA carrier to raise their dues and replace the retirees leaving. ALPAs finances are going to take a massive hit in the next few years as topped out pilots retire and the average pay drops. Age 65 was a windfall for them, which is why they supported it.

Still better then what was hired over the last five years at AA. Of course we all wish it was more.

Yeah, seems like Bzzt spent a little too much time listening to his flight school's BS. Someone did him a big disservice. At least he's only 30 - that's not very old for a career reboot.

Ah yes. The expectations were indeed crazily out of whack among the late 90's to 9/11 FNG's. Many expected to be 70-seat RJ captains at 25 driving to work in a shiny new vette. From there it was a major by 27, 757 F/O on your 30th birthday and captain by 35. The 777 left seat by 40 and then on to a 2.5 million pension to do nothing but tinker with your Baron and Extra 300 on your 60th birthday.

Airline management and the unions corrected that fantasy.......AFTER they got the needed number of idiots. :cool:

But hey, it got suckers, saps and simpletons in the door and by god, it still works today. Why just a few days ago, the same song and dance got hundreds of chumps to fleece themselves over at PSA without so much as a single encore necessary.

Dopey pilots........when will they ever learn ?

Wasn't a flight school that tricked me it was my own stupidity. Never even thought about flying my whole life but after college I was looking for an easy career. I looked at only mainline details because I'm an idiot and by the time I found out about the regionals I was trapped.

Probably be less than 50% from eagle, they already said they'd meter the 824 flows.

but they don't lose there slot. metering is minimum 20 per month by arbitrator. that's 240 per year, 150 is a non issue. be less off the street.

You can always walk away.