New Hire Classes and Drops
07-24-2022 | 09:21 AM
#2081
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How can being an airline pilot that gets paid an insane amount of money to work half of the month that stays in nice hotels even compare to deploying to a combat zone on the other side of world to sleep in a tent and eat MREs?
07-24-2022 | 10:04 AM
#2082
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From: 320 Captain
This is the worst advice ^^
1 class can make the difference between getting furloughed or not getting furloughed. For some, it made the difference between getting furloughed only once instead of twice. It can make the difference between holding WB CA, or not. It can make the difference when it comes to getting above the G line in the left seat of a widebody. It can make the difference between getting Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc off.
Get there fast, take it slow. Take the first newhire class you can, then delay upgrade if you want, but don't delay the day that your seniority starts.
1 class can make the difference between getting furloughed or not getting furloughed. For some, it made the difference between getting furloughed only once instead of twice. It can make the difference between holding WB CA, or not. It can make the difference when it comes to getting above the G line in the left seat of a widebody. It can make the difference between getting Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc off.
Get there fast, take it slow. Take the first newhire class you can, then delay upgrade if you want, but don't delay the day that your seniority starts.
I put my name on the list to move up from my awarded class date if any opening in earlier classes became available. A few weeks later UAL asked if I wanted to move up a week. I said yes. Because of that I didn’t get furloughed as part of the post 9/11 furloughs.
life on the bottom wasn’t fun, but it also wasn’t furloughed.
07-24-2022 | 01:22 PM
#2083
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Your experience must have been much different than mine. Every deployment was more frustrating and painful than the one before it.
How can being an airline pilot that gets paid an insane amount of money to work half of the month that stays in nice hotels even compare to deploying to a combat zone on the other side of world to sleep in a tent and eat MREs?
How can being an airline pilot that gets paid an insane amount of money to work half of the month that stays in nice hotels even compare to deploying to a combat zone on the other side of world to sleep in a tent and eat MREs?
If you think you “work half the month” you’re doing something the majority of are not. The data backs me up-go look at the line constructions.
Signed, 27 year army/USAF vet who also didn’t love all my deployments and agrees, yes the hotels are just fine.
07-24-2022 | 03:30 PM
#2084
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If you think this job pays an “insane” amount of money you are absolutely insane. My goodness. It’s O5 pay for the first fiveish years and goes up from there.
If you think you “work half the month” you’re doing something the majority of are not. The data backs me up-go look at the line constructions.
Signed, 27 year army/USAF vet who also didn’t love all my deployments and agrees, yes the hotels are just fine.
If you think you “work half the month” you’re doing something the majority of are not. The data backs me up-go look at the line constructions.
Signed, 27 year army/USAF vet who also didn’t love all my deployments and agrees, yes the hotels are just fine.
07-24-2022 | 06:34 PM
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4 4-day trips. 16 days out of 30 or 31 days. You are right, it’s more then half the month 😑. To use your O5 pay reference, how much work were you doing for that pay? How many field problems? How much off duty “work” did you have to do? We as pilots do not work hard for what we do and are compensated well for doing so little.
07-24-2022 | 08:42 PM
#2086
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From: Stick Monkey
This is the worst advice ^^
1 class can make the difference between getting furloughed or not getting furloughed. For some, it made the difference between getting furloughed only once instead of twice. It can make the difference between holding WB CA, or not. It can make the difference when it comes to getting above the G line in the left seat of a widebody. It can make the difference between getting Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc off.
Get there fast, take it slow. Take the first newhire class you can, then delay upgrade if you want, but don't delay the day that your seniority starts.
1 class can make the difference between getting furloughed or not getting furloughed. For some, it made the difference between getting furloughed only once instead of twice. It can make the difference between holding WB CA, or not. It can make the difference when it comes to getting above the G line in the left seat of a widebody. It can make the difference between getting Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc off.
Get there fast, take it slow. Take the first newhire class you can, then delay upgrade if you want, but don't delay the day that your seniority starts.
07-24-2022 | 08:57 PM
#2087
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From: Stick Monkey
Your experience must have been much different than mine. Every deployment was more frustrating and painful than the one before it.
How can being an airline pilot that gets paid an insane amount of money to work half of the month that stays in nice hotels even compare to deploying to a combat zone on the other side of world to sleep in a tent and eat MREs?
How can being an airline pilot that gets paid an insane amount of money to work half of the month that stays in nice hotels even compare to deploying to a combat zone on the other side of world to sleep in a tent and eat MREs?
but hey, let's help the guy understand he's gotten his, and the rushing to the first class and flushing yet another time with the family may be just another nail in the coffin for a marriage or time with the kids in their last few years around the house.
07-25-2022 | 03:41 AM
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You my friend have lived oh to cushy of a life if you think we are not paid well for the amount of work we do. I have worked much much harder and longer for a lot less pay, military and civilian work. It’s all about perspective.
07-25-2022 | 02:45 PM
#2090
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You're selling yourself and the whole pilot group short if this is your true attitude. You earn ever dollar you're paid as an airline pilot and we are way underpaid for what we do. It's not about how hard you work, if that was the case a ditch digger makes more than an airline pilot. It's supply and demand, skills and responsibility. You're going to find out quickly what you give up for that extraordinary pay is a lot!
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