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Flying's Glamour Fading for Pilots, Attendants
After 24 years of flying for Continental, Jones knows it takes him exactly 24 minutes to get out of bed, dress and walk out his hotel room door. He's a professional traveler, and to him the life isn't that glamorous. (www.chron.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I suppose its like any other job...we all look at the same thing day after day and would like to believe the grass will be greener somewhere else. At least we have jobs.....
Timing is everything people...I flew for an air carrier for 37 years, started in the DC-3 and finished doing wide-body international. Top pay and big retirement bene.(thanks to ALPA.)I had the best years the industry had to offer..No bragging or struting here. I just happened on the scene at the right time. Go to medical school if you want glamor and money..By the time you're established that will be a mess too..I'm eternally gratefull for my luck. (and the checks that come every month)
Well what some people fail to realize is that after 100,000 put into the industry to become pilots. You just can walk away for something else. You have been trained to fly an airplanes. So given there is only one technical job you understand. You have little else to do but work for nothing and if you complain there is another poor sap that is 100,000 invested, willing to work for coffee and peanuts. Just to get out of his 10.00 per hour job teaching a 16year old to fly a c172. Just so they can put their foot in the regional door for that chance to fly and gain hours for 30yeasr just to get that chance at 777 slot to earn 300,000 a year so he can retire. And as people cry about how expensive it is to fly and the airlines need to lower the price I wonder how long it will take the airlines to knock down the 777 pay grade to 25,000 per year to cover cost. As the same criers complain that pilots lack experince in the future. Because no one will become a pilot. There will come a day we teach are grandkids that if you drop out of high school you will either have to work at Mcdonalds, a gas station attendent, or be a pilot. And when your grandkids look you stund in the eye saying a " pilot why is that bad" Because you will only earn 22,000 a year so people can fly from JFK-LAX for 32.81.
When you have a job...........it is a "job". They all have their bad points. But none of you/us have it as bad as the service members in a war zone. But no matter how bad a job is........ its beats unemployement. Unemployment = what is next???????? Think about before you complain.
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Its PEOPLE and CUSTOMER SERVICE that make for a great Airline, not how many way you can automate your airline. And please dont get me started with the Off-Shore Call centers that "attempt" to handle Airline Reservations.
I can see why its not glam anymore for ANYONE, when youre an F/A and a full passenger cabin is akin to having to corral a bunch of rebellious kindergartners or drunks who the heck would love that? We need to remember that flying is a luxury not a right!!