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Originally Posted by Nick Bradshaw
And yes, we should be compensated for our sacrifices during the Lost Decade. We endured setbacks that junior will never see. Junior thinks a 3 year upgrade is "stagnation" lol.
Where were you during the "lost decade".. Oh that's right at Delta. Detla after concessions / cuts still paid better than what most of the rest of us were doing.
Where were a lot of us "juniors" who got hired 10-15 years older than the average when you got hired? Oh that's right, sketchy 135, 91 or regional 121 jobs.
Or swinging pipe on an oil rig like I was.
Oh, and most of us "lost decade" guys get 20-25 years.
When I got my first captain upgrade bid in 2020.. Grumpy bastard "deadzoner" CA I was flying with the trip after bids came out (Jan 2020 AE) "This is BS I had to be at DL 12 years to hold CA on anything". Was still holding CA at a substansially younger age than I was. Had been an ER Captain since he was my age at the time. I learned how NOT to be a Captain that trip.
Another CA (the guy I was on a trip with when bid came out) "THAT'S AWESOME!" and we went out to dinner in SFO and he took me to a hole in the wall Chinese place that was awesome, and we spent the rest of the trip talking about "thing I wish I knew when I upgraded".. I learned a lot about how to be a Captain from him.
I try to be like the second guy. We had different paths (he was ex mil but long before the insane long contracts my generation had) and had been through 9/11, Bankruptcy, and Merger. If anyone still on property had the rights to be ****ed, he was in that group. (he was hitting 65 in a month after our trip)
Just because we didn't suffer at Delta, it doens't mean we were all sunshine, rainbows and miatas at our lost decade jobs. Even the crap/lower 401k contirbution was light years ahead of what we got, and based on a cut, but still way higher than what we made pay rate.