BNA Crewbase Confirmed
08-16-2023, 06:43 PM
#72
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
Thanks for the congrats! It was one year ago yesterday! Time sure flies!
08-16-2023, 09:13 PM
#73
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Posts: 6,803
She was working at the airport, and I was a Jetstream copilot for Chautauqua there on a couple hour sit. It was the fanciest place around and literally all I could afford (and then some) as we were making $13,000 a year at the time. Been married 22 years in October.
Thanks for the congrats! It was one year ago yesterday! Time sure flies!
Thanks for the congrats! It was one year ago yesterday! Time sure flies!
Now we make literally and I mean LITERALLY 20X more and are five times grumpier. 😬
🔥👇
08-17-2023, 03:48 AM
#74
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2012
Posts: 2,030
The last time I commuted out of MCI when visiting family the airport had free parking for employees and I was able to park there with no pass. I don’t know if that’ll change with the new terminal.
08-17-2023, 04:04 AM
#75
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
ChickenTaco FO on the J-Ball, huh? Good times. Thank goodness we were passionate about and loved flying, eh? That and youthful exuberance got us through those dark days that we actually relished.
Now we make literally and I mean LITERALLY 20X more and are five times grumpier. 😬
🔥👇
Now we make literally and I mean LITERALLY 20X more and are five times grumpier. 😬
🔥👇
Anyway, met my now wife sitting next to her on a deadhead from PIT to CAK. There weren’t cellphones back then so I gave her my pager number. When we started dating I couldn’t afford much so I took her to the Western PA humane society and we would walk dogs. She thought it was romantic and sweet. I was just glad it was free. She thought I was a real gentleman that I never asked her to come back to my place. In early November 98’ somehow Chief Pilot Alex Osleger found out that I was living in my car and called me while I was at work. He told me he was afraid I was going to die if I slept in my car during the winter in Pittsburgh, so he put me on TDY in Syracuse, New York with a paid hotel room. (Come to think of it, I must have been on the Saab when I came back because Syracuse didn’t have the J-ball). He probably saved my life.
I slowly saved enough money to rent an apartment in PIT, and early in 1999 I was hired by USAir and got a recall from AirTran in the same month. I didn’t tell my wife that I was homeless when we had met until after we were engaged.
So yeah. We had to want it more than anything. We had to love every minute of it. We were young, and single, and building multi-engine turbine time for the majors… what did we have to complain about? 🤪
08-17-2023, 04:53 AM
#76
Spikes the Koolaid
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Joined APC: Jul 2015
Position: 737
Posts: 403
08-17-2023, 04:59 AM
#77
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
08-17-2023, 06:46 AM
#78
At your mom's house
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: cpt 737
Posts: 2,798
Yep. Had to want it more than anything or we wouldn’t have kept on going, Funny thing was that was my 2nd pass through Chautauqua. I had left there earlier that year, gone to AirTran as a DC9 copilot, and been furloughed a few months after training (10/98). Chautauqua was kind enough to take me back (as a newhire on the bottom of the list), but since I didn’t have any money - I had burned through my savings during training at AirTran - and I coasted into town on fumes, I didn’t have anyplace to live. My parents helped with hotels for a week or so, but I was ashamed to keep asking for money, so I parked my car in the back of a parking garage on Flaugherty Run Road. I slept in my car, and took showers at the YMCA. Chautauqua was outstation based so I was back there every night. If it got cold, I would go to a laundromat because it was warm and they had a TV.
Anyway, met my now wife sitting next to her on a deadhead from PIT to CAK. There weren’t cellphones back then so I gave her my pager number. When we started dating I couldn’t afford much so I took her to the Western PA humane society and we would walk dogs. She thought it was romantic and sweet. I was just glad it was free. She thought I was a real gentleman that I never asked her to come back to my place. In early November 98’ somehow Chief Pilot Alex Osleger found out that I was living in my car and called me while I was at work. He told me he was afraid I was going to die if I slept in my car during the winter in Pittsburgh, so he put me on TDY in Syracuse, New York with a paid hotel room. (Come to think of it, I must have been on the Saab when I came back because Syracuse didn’t have the J-ball). He probably saved my life.
I slowly saved enough money to rent an apartment in PIT, and early in 1999 I was hired by USAir and got a recall from AirTran in the same month. I didn’t tell my wife that I was homeless when we had met until after we were engaged.
So yeah. We had to want it more than anything. We had to love every minute of it. We were young, and single, and building multi-engine turbine time for the majors… what did we have to complain about? 🤪
Anyway, met my now wife sitting next to her on a deadhead from PIT to CAK. There weren’t cellphones back then so I gave her my pager number. When we started dating I couldn’t afford much so I took her to the Western PA humane society and we would walk dogs. She thought it was romantic and sweet. I was just glad it was free. She thought I was a real gentleman that I never asked her to come back to my place. In early November 98’ somehow Chief Pilot Alex Osleger found out that I was living in my car and called me while I was at work. He told me he was afraid I was going to die if I slept in my car during the winter in Pittsburgh, so he put me on TDY in Syracuse, New York with a paid hotel room. (Come to think of it, I must have been on the Saab when I came back because Syracuse didn’t have the J-ball). He probably saved my life.
I slowly saved enough money to rent an apartment in PIT, and early in 1999 I was hired by USAir and got a recall from AirTran in the same month. I didn’t tell my wife that I was homeless when we had met until after we were engaged.
So yeah. We had to want it more than anything. We had to love every minute of it. We were young, and single, and building multi-engine turbine time for the majors… what did we have to complain about? 🤪
At least I had a cot in a hangar to sleep in and it was SBA
08-17-2023, 07:47 AM
#79
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2011
Posts: 1,027
08-17-2023, 08:27 AM
#80
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2016
Position: Left
Posts: 1,260
Yep. Had to want it more than anything or we wouldn’t have kept on going, Funny thing was that was my 2nd pass through Chautauqua. I had left there earlier that year, gone to AirTran as a DC9 copilot, and been furloughed a few months after training (10/98). Chautauqua was kind enough to take me back (as a newhire on the bottom of the list), but since I didn’t have any money - I had burned through my savings during training at AirTran - and I coasted into town on fumes, I didn’t have anyplace to live. My parents helped with hotels for a week or so, but I was ashamed to keep asking for money, so I parked my car in the back of a parking garage on Flaugherty Run Road. I slept in my car, and took showers at the YMCA. Chautauqua was outstation based so I was back there every night. If it got cold, I would go to a laundromat because it was warm and they had a TV.
Anyway, met my now wife sitting next to her on a deadhead from PIT to CAK. There weren’t cellphones back then so I gave her my pager number. When we started dating I couldn’t afford much so I took her to the Western PA humane society and we would walk dogs. She thought it was romantic and sweet. I was just glad it was free. She thought I was a real gentleman that I never asked her to come back to my place. In early November 98’ somehow Chief Pilot Alex Osleger found out that I was living in my car and called me while I was at work. He told me he was afraid I was going to die if I slept in my car during the winter in Pittsburgh, so he put me on TDY in Syracuse, New York with a paid hotel room. (Come to think of it, I must have been on the Saab when I came back because Syracuse didn’t have the J-ball). He probably saved my life.
I slowly saved enough money to rent an apartment in PIT, and early in 1999 I was hired by USAir and got a recall from AirTran in the same month. I didn’t tell my wife that I was homeless when we had met until after we were engaged.
So yeah. We had to want it more than anything. We had to love every minute of it. We were young, and single, and building multi-engine turbine time for the majors… what did we have to complain about? 🤪
Anyway, met my now wife sitting next to her on a deadhead from PIT to CAK. There weren’t cellphones back then so I gave her my pager number. When we started dating I couldn’t afford much so I took her to the Western PA humane society and we would walk dogs. She thought it was romantic and sweet. I was just glad it was free. She thought I was a real gentleman that I never asked her to come back to my place. In early November 98’ somehow Chief Pilot Alex Osleger found out that I was living in my car and called me while I was at work. He told me he was afraid I was going to die if I slept in my car during the winter in Pittsburgh, so he put me on TDY in Syracuse, New York with a paid hotel room. (Come to think of it, I must have been on the Saab when I came back because Syracuse didn’t have the J-ball). He probably saved my life.
I slowly saved enough money to rent an apartment in PIT, and early in 1999 I was hired by USAir and got a recall from AirTran in the same month. I didn’t tell my wife that I was homeless when we had met until after we were engaged.
So yeah. We had to want it more than anything. We had to love every minute of it. We were young, and single, and building multi-engine turbine time for the majors… what did we have to complain about? 🤪
Now that is a story. I am going to keep this
I try telling people that some pilots could collect food stamps back in the day, I always get called out as a BS story .
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