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02-06-2018, 10:45 AM
#31
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Joined APC: Dec 2015
Position: B777 CA
Posts: 747
Originally Posted by PA Slammer
What in particular in that doc makes you think that?
02-06-2018, 12:44 PM
#32
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 664
Originally Posted by FettyWap
Here’s my priorities:
Not commuting
Making money
Type of flying I do (ive flown around the world multiple times and give 0.0 units of **** about airplane or type of flying as long as I get paid)
Love the fact that any of you know FettyWap! 1738!
Not commuting
Making money
Type of flying I do (ive flown around the world multiple times and give 0.0 units of **** about airplane or type of flying as long as I get paid)
Love the fact that any of you know FettyWap! 1738!
Lastly, you may think you care little now, but go fly a transcon or Hawaii trip in a 737, and then do it again in a 757 and tell me you still don't care.
Doesn't swa even do Hawaii btw?
02-06-2018, 01:23 PM
#33
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Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Sleeping in the black swan’s nest.
Posts: 5,709
Originally Posted by CousinEddie
I would guess that a pilot hired at SWA 20 years ago has (not counting divorces, investment disasters, etc) substantially more on average packed away in a retirement plan than a typical 20 year UAL pilot. Will that trend continue for the next 20 years? Who knows? While UAL is certainly much better off than it was during the lost decade, I would still say it remains more vulnerable to economic shocks and domestic / global competitive threats than SWA.
I’ve got a neighbor who got hired at SWA two years after I got hired at UAL. He’s 15% in base as a captain in DEN. He’s been a captain at SWA for 12 years. He darn well better have more in his retirement fund than me.
We actually made captain at our respective airlines at about the same time. The difference was that I got shucked out of the left seat after 21 months and took a massive pay cut. He just got more senior and made more money every year.
Would that story be same for two guys hired at SWA and UAL today? Time will tell. It’s a total crap shoot.
02-07-2018, 10:56 AM
#34
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
Posts: 862
Originally Posted by FettyWap
You’re right. You do sound like a dick. It takes as many keystrokes to just tell me as it did to tell me to comb through thousands of posts. As you can see by how many posts I have, I don’t live on this forum like you.
02-07-2018, 04:27 PM
#37
UCH Pilot
Joined APC: Oct 2014
Position: 787
Posts: 776
Originally Posted by FettyWap
Can you guys give me a rough idea of when I could hold Denver if I started in March.
Also, what his the hire date of the most junior Denver Capt?
Finally, it looks like all the airlines are printing cash, but do any of you guys have apprehension about United’s financial future after what we saw in the 2000’s or are those days long gone?
Also, what his the hire date of the most junior Denver Capt?
Finally, it looks like all the airlines are printing cash, but do any of you guys have apprehension about United’s financial future after what we saw in the 2000’s or are those days long gone?
02-07-2018, 07:26 PM
#39
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Joined APC: May 2009
Position: The GF of FUPM
Posts: 3,073
For the most part, the QOL for 777 F/O's on reserve is first-rate. Eggs are often overrated. 
*Try as I might, I am unable to inject any cynicism, pessimism, malaise, dyspepsia, despondency or negativity into this post. I think about it and if I can conjure up a spicy riposte, I'll hustle back and use the edit function.
*Try as I might, I am unable to inject any cynicism, pessimism, malaise, dyspepsia, despondency or negativity into this post. I think about it and if I can conjure up a spicy riposte, I'll hustle back and use the edit function.
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