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07-21-2018, 03:32 PM
#681
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2013
Position: 320A
Posts: 626
Once you get over the loss of a stripe, you will love it. Several of the FOs on the 330 used to be narrow body captains and bid back after a few years. Don't sweat the hourly pay loss. The trips are more efficient and you will earn more money per day of work. If you live close enough to GS, you will actually make more money than a 320A for less days at work. Instead of filling out new hire probation forms, your paperwork will consist of a break schedule and meal choice. I spent a few years on the NYC330 and the NYC7ER. You will get spoiled, just don't become fat and lazy.
07-21-2018, 03:45 PM
#682
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jul 2016
Posts: 97
Crewdawg, Glad you are enjoying yourself. As an international copilot I use to "toast" all the time with other crewmembers how great the job is and how I would never fly domestic again. Give it some time. Sooner or later when your are tossing and turning at night, on a layover in some European city that you have been to a hundred times before, unable to fall asleep, you will say enough is enough. I am done with this.
07-21-2018, 04:02 PM
#683
Moderator
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: DAL 330
Posts: 6,991
Who cares, it is also the law. Just like you have to be 21 to drink - age discrimination. Want to be President of the U.S. at 34 - sorry not allowed until you are 35, more age discrimination. Want to serve in the Navy after 60 - sorry its time to retire, it don't matter how fast you can run the mile or how much you can bench press.
Discrimination is not inherently bad or good. It just means to differentiate. There can be good discrimination (Pilots must have correctable eye vision) as well as the numerous types of negative discrimination that we have to come to associate the word with almost universally today.
Plenty of legal and lawful discrimination. But fret not, I am sure the mandatory retirement age will eventually be 67 but that will also be age discrimination. So until they change the law to allow you to fly part 121 as long as you can pass the FAA 1st class we are stuck with discrimination.
Scoop
07-21-2018, 04:20 PM
#684
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2015
Position: A350 Both
Posts: 7,292
Who cares, it is also the law. Just like you have to be 21 to drink - age discrimination. Want to be President of the U.S. at 34 - sorry not allowed until you are 35, more age discrimination. Want to serve in the Navy after 60 - sorry its time to retire, it don't matter how fast you can run the mile or how much you can bench press.
Discrimination is not inherently bad or good. It just means to differentiate. There can be good discrimination (Pilots must have correctable eye vision) as well as the numerous types of negative discrimination that we have to come to associate the word with almost universally today.
Plenty of legal and lawful discrimination. But fret not, I am sure the mandatory retirement age will eventually be 67 but that will also be age discrimination. So until they change the law to allow you to fly part 121 as long as you can pass the FAA 1st class we are stuck with discrimination.
Scoop
Discrimination is not inherently bad or good. It just means to differentiate. There can be good discrimination (Pilots must have correctable eye vision) as well as the numerous types of negative discrimination that we have to come to associate the word with almost universally today.
Plenty of legal and lawful discrimination. But fret not, I am sure the mandatory retirement age will eventually be 67 but that will also be age discrimination. So until they change the law to allow you to fly part 121 as long as you can pass the FAA 1st class we are stuck with discrimination.
Scoop
filler
07-21-2018, 06:12 PM
#685
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,057
Crewdawg, Glad you are enjoying yourself. As an international copilot I use to "toast" all the time with other crewmembers how great the job is and how I would never fly domestic again. Give it some time. Sooner or later when your are tossing and turning at night, on a layover in some European city that you have been to a hundred times before, unable to fall asleep, you will say enough is enough. I am done with this.
07-21-2018, 06:29 PM
#686
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2015
Posts: 631
07-21-2018, 06:33 PM
#687
Moderator
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 5,807
Crewdawg, Glad you are enjoying yourself. As an international copilot I use to "toast" all the time with other crewmembers how great the job is and how I would never fly domestic again. Give it some time. Sooner or later when your are tossing and turning at night, on a layover in some European city that you have been to a hundred times before, unable to fall asleep, you will say enough is enough. I am done with this.
Last edited by crewdawg; 07-21-2018 at 06:45 PM.
07-21-2018, 09:19 PM
#689
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
07-22-2018, 12:51 AM
#690
veut gagner à la loterie
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Light Chop
Posts: 23,286
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