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Old 07-28-2025 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by GearedUp
This aged well.

I think it aged just fine. Never said anything wasn’t happening the OP is not a real person is what I meant.
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Old 07-28-2025 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by LNAVVNAVPATH
Thanks for that.

Taxes and Union Dues $5,000
House Payment $5,500
Club Sports 3 Kids, $3,500
Food $4,000
Gas and Insurance $3,000 (3 Teenagers)
Alamony 1st Wife $2,000
Utilities and Phones $2,000
Medical and Insurance $1,000 (Braces)
Your food budget is our entire monthly spending requirement. Crazy lifestyle some people live.

Not sure where you are but in my state kids can do an associate's degree (essentially all of the lower end 101 courses and stuff like calculus 1-3, etc) at the local CC for $100/credit hour, it's around $6k for the two-year. Then transfer into the State system and get a 4-year. Total cost is around $20k-$25k not including room/board total for the combined BS/BA degree.

Originally Posted by LNAVVNAVPATH
I’m just so terrified I don’t know what to do!! Ever since I read that email I’m so angry I could punch a wall. These 105 Captains from Vegas are gonna push SO MANY junior pilots out of DFW and IAH into Florida and maybe even the Northeast. I never should have ever left the Corporate Job I had. The only reason I did was my ex wife ended up sleeping with one of the owners while I was in long term training on the Hawker. FML. I think for me, I’m gonna nuke my 401k, pay off my house, downgrade back to FO, and pull all my kids out of their club sports, and then just keep applying everywhere and anywhere. F&ck!!!!!!! I should have left when Frontier fell through the first time! F&ck this POS airline!! I hope Ted slips and falls and his guitar lands right up his a$$!!!!!!!!!!
My dude I can feel the stress in this post through my computer.

Wind the clock. NO RASH MOVES. Get with your family and explain everything, lay it out on the table. Make a plan. Plan A, B, C, D, E and F. Think through it through logically as best you can.

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Old 07-28-2025 | 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 3inthegreen
Now it was all Ben. He’s the one that trashed Ned’s Airline and turned it into Section 8 Airways.
No one hired after 2008 would be here if it weren’t for Ben. Maybe that would’ve been a good thing but he’s why the growth happened.
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Old 07-28-2025 | 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Name User
Your food budget is our entire monthly spending requirement. Crazy lifestyle some people live.

Not sure where you are but in my state kids can do an associate's degree (essentially all of the lower end 101 courses and stuff like calculus 1-3, etc) at the local CC for $100/credit hour, it's around $6k for the two-year. Then transfer into the State system and get a 4-year. Total cost is around $20k-$25k not including room/board total for the combined BS/BA degree.


My dude I can feel the stress in this post through my computer.

Wind the clock. NO RASH MOVES. Get with your family and explain everything, lay it out on the table. Make a plan. Plan A, B, C, D, E and F. Think through it through logically as best you can.
$1,000 a week covers my kids, my girlfriend, her 3 kids, and our 6 dogs. My boys are athletes and eat 3 or 4lbs a meat a week and almost a dozen eggs a day.

I just called our realtor today, I think we are gonna list our home and just downsize our lifestyle so my kids can keep playing club sports. I’ll take the downgrade and just keep applying. Sucks to be going backwards but it is what it is.
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Old 07-28-2025 | 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Noisecanceller
No one hired after 2008 would be here if it weren’t for Ben. Maybe that would’ve been a good thing but he’s why the growth happened.
I see what you are saying, but our reputation suffered irreversible damage once we started chasing the passengers that can afford $9 tickets.
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Old 07-28-2025 | 02:54 PM
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Roughly how senior are the furloughs affecting?
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Old 07-28-2025 | 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by CatPilot1
I’ve been enjoying it. The regular retards all fell for it too. Prefect gathering spot for them to dish out life advice. One retard has openly wondered where halon was; he’s at least 3 people in this thread including this threads creator. I’m just surprise SloFlo didn’t show up. I’ve started calling hospitals and jails.
You can’t call people retards and get the username wrong. Also, I don’t think about you at all, but glad to know I occupy real estate in your head rent free


To the Spirit pilots, I hope it works out for yall. NK is an awesome place to work at. Hope the ship starts heading in the right direction
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Old 07-28-2025 | 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by LNAVVNAVPATH
$1,000 a week covers my kids, my girlfriend, her 3 kids, and our 6 dogs. My boys are athletes and eat 3 or 4lbs a meat a week and almost a dozen eggs a day.

I just called our realtor today, I think we are gonna list our home and just downsize our lifestyle so my kids can keep playing club sports. I’ll take the downgrade and just keep applying. Sucks to be going backwards but it is what it is.
I would wait, it’s possible you may not even hold IAH as a FO.
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Old 07-28-2025 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by SoFloFlyer
You can’t call people retards and get the username wrong. Also, I don’t think about you at all, but glad to know I occupy real estate in your head rent free


To the Spirit pilots, I hope it works out for yall. NK is an awesome place to work at. Hope the ship starts heading in the right direction

A colleague here under lots of stress due to financials, etc… Yet their CEO made $4 million in 2024, oh, in bonuses only.
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Old 07-28-2025 | 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by TerrainAhead
A colleague here under lots of stress due to financials, etc… Yet their CEO made $4 million in 2024, oh, in bonuses only.

Just like I tell the FAs, feel free to go to CEO school
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