Retiring NWA Captain Sums It Up

[Long-Gonner]

Wow. To all those grumpy pi$$ed off pilots out there......

Please retire or quit. Don't sit here unitl you're 65. I don't need to sit hear and listen about how much you hate your job and company.

Flying for a living has nothing to do with WANTING to be gone from the family, WANTING to eat meals in 30 seconds, WANTING to live in hotels half your life, WANTING to have reduced rest.

Flying is supposed to about doing it because you love it. Because you don't want a 9 to 5 job in a cubical, because you want to see the world, because it's fun, because your passion and your job are one and the same.

If you hate flying, hate your company, hate your life style, then leave. I'm soooo tired of seeing and hearing grumpy pilots. Leave. If money is the only thing you care about, go be a plumber or what ever. There are too many guys out there who would kill to fly for the airlines or have a professional flying job. I don't need to see any of you guys in the flight deck anymore. Leave the flying for the guys who want to be there.

Life is what you make of it, and not what it makes of you. Yeah things get rough, but you always look for the silver lining.

Excellent post. I don't wanna hear any 60 yearold farts complaining about anything.....including that their steak is overdone

 

[fob727]

Excellent post. I don't wanna hear any 60 yearold farts complaining about anything.....including that their steak is overdone

After 30 yrs. or more, the "old farts" can bit$h about anything they want. Shut up jr.

 

[d.fitz]

After 30 yrs. or more, the "old farts" can bit$h about anything they want. Shut up jr.

Poor guy, you actually have to live in the real world and work for a living.

Just make sure you remember, it's you guys that got us here! You voted for the contracts.... We are just trying to enjoy the profession you left for us.

Your 30 yrs doesn't mean sh!t....

 

[joemama]

"Why yes sir thank you for purchasing the lifetime balance with those new Bridgestone tires. May I interest you in a new battery? No, well thank you anyway."

"For being such a valued customer to Sears I would like to offer you a free oil change today to say "Thank You."

Sounds better than flying to me.

 

[eaglesview]

Poor guy, you actually have to live in the real world and work for a living.

Just make sure you remember, it's you guys that got us here! You voted for the contracts.... We are just trying to enjoy the profession you left for us.

Your 30 yrs doesn't mean sh!t....

You'll take the crumbs we leave you and like jr.

 

[RedRum]

You'll take the crumbs we leave you and like jr.

What a professional!

Now you guys see why we are in the predicament we are in. I got mine, pull up the ladder. Shameful.

 

[slapstick]

fob727: just because you have 30 years of seniority doesn't give you the right to be a self-centered A~hole.

 

[Flopgut]

You'll take the crumbs we leave you and like jr.

Primma donna.

 

[d.fitz]

You'll take the crumbs we leave you and like jr.

...and like jr.???

Nice job! Perhaps your FO can show you how to use your laptop like he shows you how to work the FMS. :smash:

 

[Flopgut]

Question for all you fruit loop, leprechauns who remember me from age 60 arguements: Senior rail workers and rail union leaders spent their time and effort defending and reinstating their full retirement age of 60 instead of trying to further change or merchandise it. What's that say about you clowns?

I'm talking to you Roman, eaglesview and Jim Smyth. I can't see where any one of you is less contemptable than the sum total of any hundred of the guys who crossed CAL's picket line in the 80's.

 

[fob727]

fob727: just because you have 30 years of seniority doesn't give you the right to be a self-centered A~hole.

I don't have 30 yrs., jr. I have more than a few yrs. left. You, pukes with the entitlement attitude, make me sick.

 

[bubbers44]

I found a way to enjoy all of my flying career. Starting with crop dusting, instructing, charter, jet charter, corporate then airlines. Ended up with the choice of all nighters on a B777 or single day trips to Tegucigalpa, Honduras flying a B757. I chose to sacrifice the money to enjoy the last 7 years flying from 11AM to 6PM on that beautiful 2 hr flight over Cuba to TGU. I think I would have become bitter too if I had chosen the bigger paycheck. I doubt if I was even legal for flying at night unless they count sim time. It was fun being a widebody intnl captain and not ever packing a suitcase. Choose your own destiny if you can and life is good. We got to keep our retirement too. Kind of glad United didn't hire me in 66. I would have missed all of that other fun stuff and the retirement money.

I really did enjoy my flying career and even though this sounds like a fairytale, it is true. I have proof of my final retirement video into TGU if anybody wants to see it. I got into aviation because I loved it. I wanted to go as high as I could and I did. I know it is a tough road now but hope it returns to what it was. My first interview and hundreds of apps at LAX for 13 years after got be nothing until I lucked out after 40 trips to the chief pilots office and 20 apps got my dream job. You can call that luck or dedication to a goal. It was worth it and I don't regret any of the disapointments along the way.

 

[slapstick]

I don't have 30 yrs., jr. I have more than a few yrs. left. You, pukes with the entitlement attitude, make me sick.

you know soooo much about me, Ms. Cleo.

 

[Long-Gonner]

I don't have 30 yrs., jr. I have more than a few yrs. left. You, pukes with the entitlement attitude, make me sick.

Has nothing to do with entitlement. Get over yourself........

 

[~~~^~~~]

fob727: just because you have 30 years of seniority doesn't give you the right to be a self-centered A~hole.

Yeah, but it sure helps you bid better trips.

I've always thought a good substitute for a lost retirement would be to make seniority transferable and sell-able.

I'd give Capt. grumpy a few grand to get out of my seat.

 

[d.fitz]

I've always thought a good substitute for a lost retirement would be to make seniority transferable and sell-able.

I'd give Capt. grumpy a few grand to get out of my seat.

We have PFT, No it's time for PFS. Pay for seniority.

I can see the phoenix east ads now. From zero hours to airbus captain in 2 years! Just $100,000 and two months training...

 

[xjhawk]

for all you with this guys attitude....retire already. You are right, but it was you and your union who was at the helm who caused all this crapola we are living with now

 

[Crossky]

93.00 per hr may be after he divides his rate by two to compensate for the fact that most workers work twice the amount of paid hrs in a month.

186.00 would be the rate then. I have always divided my hourly rate by two to see what it equates to for a "real" job.

C'mon CL65PILOT, read please! I quoted his post right in mine, here it is again: "My $93.00/hr and annual salary is based on an 80 hour month (hard time in the air) which doesn't include all the on duty and time I am away from home."

He flat out says he was making $93/flight hour, and that don't jibe for an NWA CA.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

As one said it did a few years ago, not now.

 

[~~~^~~~]

We have PFT, No it's time for PFS. Pay for seniority.

I can see the phoenix east ads now. From zero hours to airbus captain in 2 years! Just $100,000 and two months training...

Yeah, true.