Originally Posted by sailingfun

I doubt you will ever see a Senior VP of Flight Ops. return to the line!

Snake Smith didn't, Harry Alger didn't, Dave Bushy didn't, Joe Kolshack didn't, and I doubt Steve Dickson ever will.

Most of the above, even before they crossed over to the dark side, didn't fly very much when they were 'line pilots'. They were much more interested (or felt more comfortable?) in an office job than a cockpit. I only took this job so I'd NEVER have to work in a room with no windows, but these guys seem to love it.

There is no shortage of 4th floor wannabee's, that's for sure, but very few ever return to fly the line.

Oh, same goes for some ALPA lifer's. Once they get used to making twice what they ever could on the line, and never having to fly an all nighter into a blizzard, with weekends and Christmas off, well, life is good, why would you want to give that up?

Dave Bushy returned to the line after he was fired as the VP of flight ops. He remained a line pilot until he accepted the VP job at JetBlue.

Originally Posted by AeroCrewSolut

I hope the Senior VP of Flight Ops never returns to the line. I have respect for him and what he has done at Delta. Extremely smart man and will listen to what you have to say. I do believe he graduated #1 at the Air Force Academy and his roomate was #2. It was the first time in AFA history that the #1 and #2 graduates were pilots. He also graduated #1 at Georgia Tech law school. I hope he becomes President of Delta Air Lines.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Well, not to brag or anything but my high school started with 540 students in 9th grade and we graduated 180.

I was one of the 180.



By the way, the pregnancy rate in my 10th grade year was supposedly 30% of the females in our class although I think it was lower but definitely not single digit %. We actually had a full time child day care center for the students kids.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

I don't know, I say every page here all week should have two pictures on it, a AF 74F and a now parked NWA 74F.

Originally Posted by georgetg

Boomer, are you sure you're flying for OH?


Cheers
George

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

So are we supposed to guess what the big news is tomorrow? Where's that ACL?

Originally Posted by AeroCrewSolut

I hope the Senior VP of Flight Ops never returns to the line. I have respect for him and what he has done at Delta. Extremely smart man and will listen to what you have to say. I do believe he graduated #1 at the Air Force Academy and his roomate was #2. It was the first time in AFA history that the #1 and #2 graduates were pilots. He also graduated #1 at Georgia Tech law school. I hope he becomes President of Delta Air Lines.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

You also whispered in the girls' ears that there IS money in cargo, right?