cursesRedBaron

I'm dying over here....
That IS funny.
You DO realize that the recruiter gets a big bonus for getting you in the door, right?!?

100LL

Is airline life not that great anymore or not what you expected? Are you tired of whining passengers? Tired of thinking if your next paycheck is going to cover your rent or mortgage. Thinking about being home every holiday and day or night and not gone 5,6,7,8 days in a row. Then 135 freight is for you. Contact your local freight company today!

Excargodog

According to the recruiter........

Sure tell you’ve never served in the military.

Of ANY country.

FlyingKat

What is going on at TSA right now goes beyond the pale of normal flying. April vacations cancelled one day before bids are due, Junior manning people well below min days off, having to fight the company to get paid correctly, the pilots are being run ragged and there is no end in sight. The company is making vague promises about getting staffing fixed by summer, but parking the AA birds in December was supposed to fix that and we were Junior manning like crazy in February, which is the slowest month of the year.

Morale is pretty bad right now, and if things don't improve soon the steady stream of guys making lateral moves is going to become a flood.

FlyingKat

Yep and going six on, one off, and six more on is even worse

FlyingKat

Well here is how that can work. Fly a four day, get Junior manned for a two day with ten hours of rest in base. There you just worked six days in a row. If you live in base you get home long enough to swap out your skivvies, give the wife a quick thrill, the kids and/or the dog a pat on the head, and maybe get six hours of sleep before heading back to work. If you are a commuter, then its the commuter hotel, call the wife and explain how you won't be home to fix the toilet for two more days, listen to her complain about your ridiculous job and why TSA can't get its crap together, and off to bed.

Or, better yet you work a four day with a late release and supposed to have your six days off, they give you a day off, junior you for a four day with an early show, and give you another day off before starting your next trip. If you live in base OK, if you commute, you probably won't get home for two weeks.

This isn't an exaggeration. This kind of crap is going on now and the company is pushing junior manning to the limit.

I'm not saying don't come here. The pilot group is great and the CPs are good guys. But you will work your arse off. If you are single and don't have nor want a life, its liveable. But if you have a wife and kids it makes it very, very hard particularly if you commute.

They claim it will be fixed by summer, but I will believe it when I see it.

C37AFE

Yep. Come home for 11-12 hours enough to sleep in your bed then back out 2 days

C37AFE

Yeah still waiting on that free health care for life

NeverHome

The reason the loss of AA didn’t help was FO committed us to 7 additional airframes at that time. Guy was an idiot

FlyingKat

No argument about FO. The reason is immaterial. Its one thing after another around here and since KS left this place is falling apart. I don't expect any of this to get better unless the place gets bought and a new management team comes in. Unfortunately the trend lately is to push the company back to the way it was 10 years ago which is not good.