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Originally Posted by Maverick
16 years ago the flow was a lot different. Pass IOE as a RJ jet captain you got an AA seniority number. 24 months later you went to training 3rd year pay holding pretty much any base you wanted(like MIA). So yes that was the deal a lot of us signed up for 16 years ago.
Wow, Mav. I was there long before you, and lived through the whole mess brought on by 9/11. The game changed. It is what it is.
Nobody cares that you feel like you somehow got short changed by the whole mess; and you need to check in with reality and realize that regardless of which side of the company or which jet you initially start out in, in the long run you've managed to get a job flying for the largest airline in the world - one with massive upcoming retirements, advancement, and potential upgrades to captain in less than ten years. You are escaping the uncertain turmoil of the Regional Airline sector for a Legacy airline that will likely still be around when you retire. One that pays 16% into your 401(k). One that has new captains who spent twenty years in the right seat at AA waiting for their chance to finally upgrade. Most of those - pretty much all of them - are great people to fly with. They do not carry the negative attitude that maybe they earned the right to express. What some of them HAVE told me is that there are quite of few of us ex-Eagle guys who carry around a really negative attitude, and it gets old.
I agree, and it's embarrassing to me that a bunch guys like you who never had to interview for this job, but rather had it handed to them on a silver platter, have the audacity to come in here with a bad attitude. Get over it and yourself. Cry me a damn river. Almost all of us before have had to commute on Reserve for a year or more before finally getting based near home. It is what it is.
As I said, I was AE. I was there a lot longer than you. I feel privileged and lucky to fly for AA. I fly with awesome guys with mostly great attitudes. I love this job, for better and for worse. It's a heck of a lot better than Eagle ever was.
(Damn, I hope you're not another one of us to bring a crappy self entitled attitude into the cockpit. You make us all look bad by doing so)