B6 or Atlas

[F9 A319]

Go to B6 as soon as possible!!

Establishing your seniority there may affect the rest if your life. I have a friend that passed on a F9 class to take the next available class. It cost him like 75 numbers in the merger with RAH.

Run to JetBlue!

 

[Fins Up]

A quote from my buddy who started at Atlas last year:

Great flying, s********************ty schedule. Hoping to get a call from fedex or swa soon!

That's all the intel I got.

 

[tbm700]

What about pay at B6? Any accurate #'s?

 

[100fly]

Check pay scales on Airlinepilotcentral.com. They are acurate.

 

[Ty Webb]

K

As for age 75, NO WAY! Buy a smaller house, drive your car until it dies, if its good enough for Warren B its good enough for me. Retire at 65 and enjoy those golden years!

Save,save,save!

Uh, hate to break it to you, but lots of people don't make it to 65, even "healthy" airline pilots. I know dozens of examples of pilots who retired at 60 and then promptly fell off a ladder, wrecked a motorcycle, developed cancer, etc . . . .

In other words, don't put ALL your eggs in a retirement basket, or you may never get your eggs. . . . . .

PS., Florida is filled with millions of old people that thought it was going to be different when they retired, left all those @holes behind and moved to Florida . . . . When they got to Florida and moved into to their house or condo, they found they were still the same people they were in NJ or Philly or Des Moines . . . and it really p!sses 'em off when they finally figure out that they can't move away from themselves. :laugh:

 

[MINIME]

My gut feeling is that B6 will be tapped by someone. It's almost inevitable. No airline can get enough of the New York market. B6 has a pretty good amount.

Depending on precedents set by other mergers/acquisitions, you still might be better off at B6. I'm not a lawyer, but if B6 had the supposed protections of a union, I would say hands down, don't wait another second and get to class at B6. I just don't know how much laws like McCaskill/Bond could actually protect a pilot group without any other legal protections. Protections such as scope, time frames for integration, language that any acquiring/merging body would have to abide by legally. This is language that has to be carefully crafted. And in most cases, it is most commonly acquired through a CBA.

Atlas is a fine cargo carrier. I don't foresee them going anywhere anytime soon. Perhaps they too could be part of the consolidation game via UPS or FDX, who knows. I am aware of their integration of Polar.