PFT - The final chapter

[Kharma Police]

Don't forget ASA.

Excellent point, in fact some of ASA's former PFT pilots have moved up the corporate ladder.

 

[Ty Webb]

don't forget AT's old name VJ was a PFT, $10K for FSI DC( type, lots of AT guys started with PFT, are you one Ty?

YGBFKM . . . . . I've been on this board since about 1996 and have been one of the loudest voices against the practice of PFT, so not only "no", but "HELL NO!".

Sheesh!

 

[waveflyer]

Ok- this was moved to the wrong spot. How is this a GA discussion?

 

[pilotyip]

the good ole days

YGBFKM . . . . . I've been on this board since about 1996 and have been one of the loudest voices against the practice of PFT, so not only "no", but "HELL NO!".

Sheesh!

but I bet you jerked gear for them and said "Nice landing sir, I'll take the fat one" ha Ha

 

[Kharma Police]

don't forget AT's old name VJ was a PFT, $10K for FSI DC( type, lots of AT guys started with PFT, are you one Ty? I was set to pay, had an interview scheduled a week after the May 96 crash. Didn't go.

Why didn't you re-apply after AirTran reopened the doors? Someone with your experience would have been a great asset and you would have been very senior and a rich man by now. Sure beats flying drive shafts down to Guadalajara in the middle of the night.

 

[pilotyip]

I was getting too old and that age 60 thing would have killed me in retirement. At JUS I could keep working a lot longer.

 

[DonVerita]

I was getting too old and that age 60 thing would have killed me in retirement. At JUS I could keep working a lot longer.

Yep. Working indefinately behind a desk like the management lapdog that you are.

 

[pilotyip]

Got it all wrong

Yep. Working indefinately behind a desk like the management lapdog that you are.

Very little time at the desk. Lots in the airplane, classroom, fun stuff.

 

[waveflyer]

Very little time at the desk. Lots in the airplane, classroom, fun stuff.

And online in an anonymous chatboard trying to convince pilots they are only worth what your company pays....

 

[pilotyip]

?????????

And online in an anonymous chatboard trying to convince pilots they are only worth what your company pays....

I have never said that, I have said that pilots are entitled to whatever the market will pay them. Some pay their dues in the on-demand business, remember part of your sacrifice speech? I have seen too many pilots leave JUS to places like AAL, DAL, NJ, FedEx, UPS, even SWA without a college degree. Mostly they are thankful for the opportunity to get the resume fluff for the next job and many stay in touch with me after leaving to talk about the good ole days. Many elect to stay because them enjoy 6 figure + incomes and they could never catch up with their earnings if they left JUS. BTW anonymous? everyone knows who I am, where I work, and how to get ahold of me.

 

[waveflyer]

So flight time is part of the compensation package?

And when your pilots are good and experienced and qualified- pay goes up?

 

[pilotyip]

So flight time is part of the compensation package?

And when your pilots are good and experienced and qualified- pay goes up?

Again all wrong, it is a place you come to get your next job. If you don't get your next job, you end up hanging around moving up the pay scale. You know 12th Ca's make more than 2nd yr F/O's. Many people are not as cool as you and don't get chances to go to SWA, so they are stuck in a bottom feeder ecking by on their miserly $100K/yr. Funny thing it is a place you come back to when the next job didn't work out. BTW 1st yr DA-20 F/O pay is $36K/yr. Well above anyone else in this sector, almost double what one gets for a SJS job.