Comair updates?
03-27-2011, 03:59 PM
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Joined APC: Nov 2008
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So you guys are gonna wait until all the other regionals hire then u will leave comair and get hired at the bottom of another regional. If u leave now u know at least that u won't be at the bottom Y wait???? The end is in sight and u are just watching it come for u. Leave now and actually be ahead of something.
03-27-2011, 04:27 PM
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your right what was i thinking!!! It makes so much more sense to hold on until the end.
03-27-2011, 04:47 PM
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Position: A320 FO
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I agree with you 100%, that's what I'll do when I get furloughed.
03-27-2011, 04:50 PM
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I think what he is trying to say that he will look at another career. Why leave now when you can milk it to the end at the higher pay. There is life and jobs out of aviation. It's not the end of the world.
03-27-2011, 05:42 PM
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Because the "higher pay" isn't really that "high" anyway (even at $42 an hour and 75 hours a month is only $37,800 a year, plus the per diem that you spend on the road anyway). If you're going to look for a career outside aviation, why not look now and take a job that will certainly pay more than 3rd or 4th year pay...and have a better QOL?
03-27-2011, 06:39 PM
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Even in other career fields your not immune to low pay and crappy management. I can name multiple people I know who have taken large paycuts (50% for one, no union=no say) or been laid off in IT, medicine, education, and business.
So good luck, but don't count on it being easier or greener.
So good luck, but don't count on it being easier or greener.
03-27-2011, 07:44 PM
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Position: Knuckle-dragging line pilot
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I'm not hanging on till the end, but I know some guys have wives with great jobs and are looking forward to getting furloughed and staying home with their kids for a while.
There's no single right answer.
03-28-2011, 09:17 AM
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So you guys are gonna wait until all the other regionals hire then u will leave comair and get hired at the bottom of another regional. If u leave now u know at least that u won't be at the bottom Y wait???? The end is in sight and u are just watching it come for u. Leave now and actually be ahead of something.
Option 1 - start over at a new regional, back on year 1 pay, no vacation, commute to another city, bottom of a 3000 pilot list. No thanks.
Option 2a - stay at Comair on year 8 pay, hope that "pilot shortage" actually happens in the next two years, go straight to Delta/Contided/USScare/JetBlue etc.
Option 2b - stay at Comair, get furloughed, leave aviation.
I'm taking Option 2.
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