NJA would be the last place I would ever go...the point is to move up, not laterally between fractionals which fluctuate year to year between who is the top paid, and who is not...everything cycles. Anyone leaving the fracs needs to have a LONG TERM plan with regard to career advancement, and flying little planes and being gone for an entire week at a time, is NOT something people want to do when they reach 50 (unless they have the entire rest of the MONTH off). I don't sacrifice the long term for short-term, short sighted, lateral "goals."
Ever wonder why the NJA guys STILL have to be on the boards 24/7 to convince everyone how "great" they have it, and how much better they think their job is than anywhere else? For starters:
- The IBB is NOT as great as they are trying to convince people, or it would not be necessary for every single one of them to insert "overtime" into the equation in discussions about what they made (which, in itself is the most tacky ill-bred trait one can imagine)
- Deep down, while they are PROJECTING about guys who they feel only have "egos that need the big jets," it is like a billboard to the world how envious THEY really are, because if they weren't it wouldn't occur to them to CARE what others want to do.
- The trophy major guys they managed to get there for whatever reason, are the very limited EXCEPTION, not the rule, so there goes that... why ARE they such a trophy for NJA anyways? Because it helps massage THEIR egos that someone left a better long term career to go to theirs.
I would venture to guess that there are more people at NJA (referencing those with higher flight time) that have blemishes on their records and/or lack of a degree that have affected their ABILITY to go to the "MAJORS." From what is left you can then factor in those with ex-wives and / or excess children that can NOT make the brief initial sacrifices required in starting with the majors.
You can all toot your own horns all you want, but you're only impressing those with much lower time who aren't really fully in the know...or those similarly limited in their ability to advance. It is a decent job compared to your category, but like baseball, you can gloat all you want about your minor league status, but deep down you'll always wonder "what if" you got to the majors, especially now that they are hiring again. I might think about a fractional again if a major laid me off...but that would only be a last resort if there were no real corp gigs around (people that can afford whole planes and their own ops/management teams)...but I would still have that golden seniority number as opposed to a dead end frac job that's so-so until the contract expires and the next big jet pass idea comes up and wipes out the current idea of frac ownership.
Just the facts, now let your little egos flame away about how great you'll have it "forever and ever", lol.:beer: The ONLY ones you can claim a "one up" on for the MOMENT is FLOPS so you go at it all you can (even though you guys were the real brunt of jokes not long ago)..and that is only because NJA pilots have been on a MISSION to MAKE it that way and make the widespread opinion of FLOPS what it now is. The only reason these mgt scumbags continue to take and take is due to YOUR incessant antagonizing and the little boy fights between them and your mouthpieces at IBT. You CREATED the problems at FLOPS, then proceeded to ruin the whole company's rep...your "brothers'" included.
