Originally Posted by CatPilot1

This has to be a troll. No way a 72 year old gets on APC still; well at least I hope not/should not. Show me your APC account during an interview at a ‘very major’ airline interview lol! I guess I’ll show em my only fans; bunch of perverts. Social media wasn’t a thing when ‘your friend’ was interviewing people 50 years ago.

Originally Posted by FriendlyPilot

Spirit shareholders are already wiped out. Stock price is $1.13 today down over 97% from highs. Most lont term investors have already sold and are gone. What's left is noise trading or people that forgot they have $SAVE in some random stock account.

Originally Posted by AutoBrksMedium

Doesn’t the stock price go to zero and then removed from the stock market as part of the bankruptcy?

Originally Posted by rickair7777

...you might find you can bang out much earlier than you thought (especially at our income levels).

Originally Posted by jabr800

WOW.

Can't believe the way some folks respond to some questions with almost an attack!

First airline was Frontier (the Original Frontier which perhaps some people never heard about)
Was absolutely top notch and second to only Delta back then.
Squezed out by corporate sheningans into a total shutdown, with nothing left.
Couple of Furloughs as many of us had in the day also.

Complete start over several months later at Continental, which was slowly recovering from it's second bankruptcy.
Pay check here was about 1/3 of my old pay and minimal benefits.
Not a fun place back then.

Last was UPS.
Got 25 years out of this one and a real pension.
Yes, I am old.
72 years now and loving my life as a retired pilot with good success in my career.

One secret I'll share with the group here, is don't go after people that are just asking questions!

I hope people at Spirit can have a recovery like I was lucky enough to pull off.

And to "CincoDeMayo", here's this:
Phrases like "Flies as a Captain", "Is a Captain", "holds Captain senority", and probably a 100 other ways of stating something this, shouldn't really trigger a response.
Sorry the wording isn't perfect by your standards, but the point is still made.

A good friend was in charge of some of the pilot hiring at a very major airline.
One place several of you candidates, assuming you no longer have a job at your carrier or maybe you are brand new to 121 flying, would get tripped up at is the part where they ask you to show them your activities on social media like here.
They typically prefer people that go with the flow, not ones that stir things up.

Perhaps you might want to reconsider your ststements.

Anyway as said before, good luck everyone.

Originally Posted by putzin

At the current rates, you’ve made more than enough to compensate your “loss”. We all have. None of us ever dreamed we’d be making 4-600k a year this easy.

But like most millennials you still whine, like somebody owes you something. The amount we all have is insane and an incredible blessing.

There, I said it.

edit: Honestly look around the world and tell me how tough we have it. This is not about thinking we should be working for free, far from it.

Originally Posted by Acehole

just out of curiosity, what year did you get on with continental?

Originally Posted by jabr800

Perhaps SSlow, however, I've been at 3, 121 carriers, and this is how is went everytime.
As they say, history repeats itself!

Originally Posted by AutoBrksMedium

Doesn’t the stock price go to zero and then removed from the stock market as part of the bankruptcy?

Originally Posted by ShyGuy

It's a seniroity system. I didn't ask for it. It just is. And the retirement limit is the only guaranteed way to get that movement that all of THEM enjoyed through their careers.

The compensation argument falls flat, because they too are making those high wages now.

"Somebody owes you something?"

Who owed those guys to work from 60 to 65?

Who owes them now to work from 65 to 67?


This started with a Delta pilot whose brother was a politician, who got 67 into some appropriations bill. You really want to talk about greed and entitlement?