You seem like you would fit better a Delter Airlines.... Loosen that top button and take the hat off. Its just a damn job..

“It’s just a damn job”.. to you. Not to your passengers. Sorry, certain things cannot be explained to some. Keep on acting cool.

Whatever Neidermeyer, you be you with your own special brand of “professionalism”.

I’m thinking that he’s a hat in the summer kind of guy.

Jack? cAPTAIN Jack? Mr SR-71? I was the best in my class Jack? Jack M*****n? I thought you retired.

Apparently, stating an opinion about the critical nature of flying passengers Vs cargo is a major faux-pas. Maybe it’s because I stated the obvious. Lesson learned. I didn’t realize that it would be interpreted as “declaring victory” in some contest between children.
The cyber-bullying that resulted from my post is troubling however.
I think it shows two things: the pent-up rage due to this crisis is significant and the anonymity of this forum brings out people’s true personalities. And they are pretty damn ugly.

Must of been the kid in school everyone picked on [emoji15]

good one! So original C2078! 😅

What is behind the door is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if it is 200 people on United, or 200,000 pounds of military explosives on Atlas. The responsibility and professionalism are the same. If anything, I’d argue that hauling a load of military explosives in parts of the world with very few viable alternates to be of a much more “critical nature”. It’s just a job and we’re all paid to move airplanes from point A to B. Some freight loads itself and complains about the experience, some has to be loaded and can be hazardous.

I have experience with military loads. Missiles, hazmat of all sorts etc. EIA, if you remember them. Anyway, I never said that cargo pilots are less professional. I think people read into a post what they choose to understand, sometimes. Btw, Atlas flies pax also, do they not?
However, what is behind the door does matter. A lot.
All I was trying to convey is that regardless of the cyclical nature of the pax biz, I prefer it because of how safety-critical the job is.
People get into this business for all sorts of reasons. I personally find great satisfaction in safely flying people from A to B.
I expressed a personal preference and people flipped.