US Airlines will go the way of the Shipping Industry

[airborn]

Actually, you guys already ARE living on their wages.

I made a whole lot more in my first job out of college as a Third Mate with a bottom feeder shipping company than any FO working for Mesa, American Eagle Comair or the like. I also had a lot less debt.

believe me it can get worse, not that it is not despicable enough as it.

 

[Oh-ryan]

doubt you will see what happened in the US shipping industry to happen in the US aviation industry. The big difference... people are not cargo. Most folks don't care how their 57inch plasma got to their house therefore they can turn a blind eye to that cargo ship from Monrovia or Panama. However, they may express a little more concern when they load their family on a plane bound for Mouseland and see two guys with turbines on their heads at the controls.

People are simple, they express very little emotion or passion until something affects them, their family or their pocketbook personally. True, Hadji and Ackmed will make airfare to Disney cheaper, but in today's day and age I just don't see the general public allowing that to happen. Look what happened to the Dubai ports deal.

 

[b757driver]

However, they may express a little more concern when they load their family on a plane bound for Mouseland and see two guys with turbines on their heads at the controls.

Ha, ha, ha. That's a nice one, ryan!
I think you meant turbans , no?
Methinks they'd get a bit of a headache if it really were turbines on their head!!!:smash:

 

[Oh-ryan]

good catch. Thanks b757. Can take the boy out of the plane but not the plane out of the boy.

It's all ball bearings anyway... and hookers.