TWA 2 ASA FO
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JustAPilot,
Do you remember what the Capt Rep for APA from SFO said to us fellow employees based in STL? I believe it was something to the fact of "Let me explain where you guys stand. We (AA Pilots) are major league baseball players, and you are the hot-dog vendors in our stadium."
During the merger, I didn't hear ONE AA PILOT stand up and say, "Hey let's try to have a fair merger with the TWA pilots and try to follow previous airline merger standards." Nope, as I recall all we ever heard from you guys was, "If there is ONE AA PILOT furloughed and there are ANY TWA pilots left on property then we should strike and shut this company down." In fact, one of your WONDERFUL Capts from MIA wrote that any former TWA F/O that ever flew with him should get used to going to the sim every 90 days for landing currency, because no TWA F/O would EVER make a landing in his aircraft.
And now, as you try to send your junior AA pilots down to Ealge as Capts, you are amazed they can't get through training. It is because they feel it is beneath them, so they don't try during training. I flew for a regional for 3 years before I was LUCKY enough to be hired by TWA and I will tell you, their training programs are 10X more challenging than major airlines. At majors, they do everything within their power to help you though training, but at a regional you have to be a motivated individual to get through. Maybe if the AA pilots flowing back down had any common sense they would realize how lucky they were to be getting a flying job at all right now, much less come in as a Capt. People like them get to a major and forget about reality. Well, unfortunately the reality of the industry right now is every last pilots who is still flying for a living at an airline is a VERY luck individual. I count myself in that list, even though I was furloughed, I am still VERY fortunate to be able to support myself flying for a living.
Do you remember what the Capt Rep for APA from SFO said to us fellow employees based in STL? I believe it was something to the fact of "Let me explain where you guys stand. We (AA Pilots) are major league baseball players, and you are the hot-dog vendors in our stadium."
During the merger, I didn't hear ONE AA PILOT stand up and say, "Hey let's try to have a fair merger with the TWA pilots and try to follow previous airline merger standards." Nope, as I recall all we ever heard from you guys was, "If there is ONE AA PILOT furloughed and there are ANY TWA pilots left on property then we should strike and shut this company down." In fact, one of your WONDERFUL Capts from MIA wrote that any former TWA F/O that ever flew with him should get used to going to the sim every 90 days for landing currency, because no TWA F/O would EVER make a landing in his aircraft.
And now, as you try to send your junior AA pilots down to Ealge as Capts, you are amazed they can't get through training. It is because they feel it is beneath them, so they don't try during training. I flew for a regional for 3 years before I was LUCKY enough to be hired by TWA and I will tell you, their training programs are 10X more challenging than major airlines. At majors, they do everything within their power to help you though training, but at a regional you have to be a motivated individual to get through. Maybe if the AA pilots flowing back down had any common sense they would realize how lucky they were to be getting a flying job at all right now, much less come in as a Capt. People like them get to a major and forget about reality. Well, unfortunately the reality of the industry right now is every last pilots who is still flying for a living at an airline is a VERY luck individual. I count myself in that list, even though I was furloughed, I am still VERY fortunate to be able to support myself flying for a living.
