Making it to Big Iron

[Mooseflyer]

It's nice to fly with someone who can talk about something other than airplanes, women, beer, or sports.

There's other stuff?

 

[CSY Mon]

Mooseflyer:

 

[becket]

Who cares about the airplane? It's the same job from the front seat. Show me the money. That's the only thing that matters in this business. Your retirement can vanish, your base can close, and I don't care how much kool-aid some other posters have drunk, but we're all just one bad CEO away from the trash bin. Jetblue included. Go for the fattest paycheck and get the best financial planner money can buy. Get all you can before the music stops because as sure as the sun rises, tough times will hit at somepoint in your career. Probably several times over.

 

[JJJ]

That is good advice. Be responsible for your own retirement. Don't count on a pension or the government to take care of you.

 

[FN FAL]

Just lost one of our non-degreed pilots to one of the hot spots in today's LLC passenger job market. 28 years old, 6000 TT, 5000 TJ, 4000 Part 121 TJ PIC. This is to an airline that advertizes college degree perfered.

Are you wanting us to pat you on the back for pointing out the difference between the word REQUIRED and the word PREFERRED? Or are you just trying to tell us that high time jet pilots without degrees have to accept lower wage jobs at those "WALMARTS" of commercial aviation called LLC's?

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[pilotyip]

Walmarts?

Spirit, Jet Blue, AirTan, are these the Walmarts of the airline business, if so there are tons of Walmart wantabees out there. Of course our former non-degreed high time jet pilots who went to UAL and NWA, find themseleves unemployed and wish they had gone the LLC route.

 

[enigma]

Re: exception to every rule

Just lost one of our non-degreed pilots to one of the hot spots in today's LLC passenger job market. 28 years old, 6000 TT, 5000 TJ, 4000 Part 121 TJ PIC. This is to an airline that advertizes college degree perfered.

Spirit recently lost a non-degreed pilot to B6. Networking counts as much as a degree at carriers that only desire, but not require, the degree.

enigma

 

[jimcav]

A lot of guys and gals would love to work for one of the "wal-marts" of aviation.I have flown with a lot of pilots furloughed from the majors and the consensus is most are very happy.And oh by the way, I don't think that my fifth yr capt pay on the 717 is as bad as some few knuckleheads on this board seem to think.People like you make comments like that for one simple reason. Your jealous. FN FAL and those like you are the types in this industry that I have no respect for, and thank God I don't have to deal with on a daily basis.

 

[jimcav]

FN FAL my fifth yr 717 capt pay at 120 per hr is a hell of a lot better than most people in this country are doing. I consider myself quite fortunate to be where I am. A lot of people would give up a limb to work for one of the "wal-marts" of aviation. Grow up.