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Old 11-16-2017, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RJSAviator76 View Post
Speaking of training centers, any guesses on why we dropped 150 million on a new training center and all these additional sim bays?

Surely the bean counters at this airline are some of the stingiest people alive! I mean who the hell removes cockpit window shades in the interests of saving money and then turns around and spends 150 million on a new training center??!
Well, world domination is the stated goal

Need lots of sims bays for that!
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Old 11-22-2017, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by CA1900 View Post
Compound interest is a powerful thing.

He said he's on the younger side, so let's figure a 30-year-old newhire who defers 10% of his income, plus the 15% (as of 1/1/19) company contribution. He'll have 35 years to build the account.

I don't have a spreadsheet so can't give you the specific math, but a $200,000 income over 35 years, with the above contributions, would have $6.5 Million in the account, assuming a 7% annual return according to this Bankrate 401k calculator. 8% return would put it over $8 million.
Yeah, but you can't just average out 8% over the lifetime of the account. It doesn't work that way. Here's a simple example, assuming no contributions.

Lets say you have 100k, and the economy tanks, like 2008, and you get a 50% loss on the year. Now, let's say the economy rebounds in the next year and you earn 50%. Your average return is 0%, but your balance is only 75k. Compound interest works both ways.
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Old 11-22-2017, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by mojo6911 View Post
Yeah, but you can't just average out 8% over the lifetime of the account. It doesn't work that way. Here's a simple example, assuming no contributions.

Lets say you have 100k, and the economy tanks, like 2008, and you get a 50% loss on the year. Now, let's say the economy rebounds in the next year and you earn 50%. Your average return is 0%, but your balance is only 75k. Compound interest works both ways.

Sure you can. Just don't make the "no contributions" assumption when there are dividends and interest being paid out, in addition to the 10% deferral and 15% company contributions. Dollar Cost Averaging on the way down makes that recovery much faster on the way back up. The S&P 500 has average lifetime returns of over 9%, which includes its dividends.
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Old 12-11-2017, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Beans View Post
So if someone tells you they are consistantly getting 100 TFP for working 12 days and thats the norm they are filling you with bs.
January 2018 lines in all bases average 91TFP and over 18 days off. If you add 2-3 TFP to each trip through ELITT, you are very close to 100TFP and 12 days of work.......and that is in January! The summer months average 100+ TFP's and 18 days off. I don't think the statement is as flawed as you make it out to be.
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Originally Posted by shoelu View Post
January 2018 lines in all bases average 91TFP and over 18 days off. If you add 2-3 TFP to each trip through ELITT, you are very close to 100TFP and 12 days of work.......and that is in January! The summer months average 100+ TFP's and 18 days off. I don't think the statement is as flawed as you make it out to be.
If you look at his posting history he’s commonly viewed as a troll, FYI.
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