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PSA - Poor Sailor Airline

Catmando

Keep your knots up.
pilot
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No I'm not ... although Delta would not interview me when I turned 31 ... as NO ONE over 30 was the DAL mantra when the late/not-so-great Dr. Janus (who later blew his brains out:)) ran the interview/hiring show ... I'm assuming you've heard about the "rocking chair" ??? :D

And now, over 30 or not ... I "are" a Delta Pilot ....

Who could know ... ??? :)

Delta wouldn't interview me either...... cuz I wuz over 30 too!

Knew about the "rocking chair" but did not know about the doctor's demise. But no tear shed here on that news.

Later, after Frank Lorenzo screwed me out of my Continental Airlines position, I swore off airlines for a while. Then I caught the bug again, and interviewed the same week with old PSA in San Diego and America West in PHX. Figured I could regain my lost CAL seniority faster with AWA than PSA.

But in the end, USAirways assimilated PSA, and AWA years later assimilated USAirways..... And I would have ended my career with the same fricken bad airline, regardless of which one I had chosen, decades earlier. :crazy_125

As you say: "Who could know?" :confused:
 

A4sForever

BTDT OLD GUY
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Later, after Frank Lorenzo screwed me out of my Continental Airlines position, I swore off airlines for a while. Then I caught the bug again, and interviewed the same week with old PSA in San Diego and America West in PHX. Figured I could regain my lost CAL seniority faster with AWA than PSA.
It would appear that we've come "close" at least twice in the airlines ...

I got hired and reported to PSA;
quit after 4 days 'cause Braniff was "such a good deal" ... later passed on CAL, UAL, AS, amongst others ... :D

"Who could know"??? ... indeed.
 

A4sForever

BTDT OLD GUY
pilot
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Speakin' of Poor Sailors' Airline (PSA) ....

One of my classmates ... a 2 tour Vietnam survivor ... was a Second Officer on Flight 182 over SanDog in 1978 .... there were only 5 of us in the class .... it could have been any one of us as the assignment was made off the reserve list --- so when you look at the long game, mebbe Braniff was the 'best thing that ever happened to me' ....

Bad day:

PSA182.jpg



PSA: Catch Our Smile

The last run of PSA Flight 182 - Wikipedia




Note: the last crew comment @ 09:02:04 is identified as "unknown" ... but it was my former Shipmate ... he said:

"Ma, I love yah" ...


Huge loss, 30+ PSA employees died in addition to all the pax, the Cessna people, and several on the ground ... and all completely unnecessary; just one of those things ... to this day, I don't believe they could have seen the traffic -- I think it was below them ... a bad, bad day.

Good guys, all.
 

Catmando

Keep your knots up.
pilot
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Speakin' of Poor Sailors' Airline (PSA) ....

One of my classmates ... a 2 tour Vietnam survivor ... was a Second Officer on Flight 182 over SanDog in 1978 .... there were only 5 of us in the class .... it could have been any one of us as the assignment was made off the reserve list --- so when you look at the long game, mebbe Braniff was the 'best thing that ever happened to me' ....

Bad day:

PSA182.jpg



PSA: Catch Our Smile

The last run of PSA Flight 182 - Wikipedia


Note: the last crew comment @ 09:02:04 is identified as "unknown" ... but it was my former Shipmate ... he said:

"Ma, I love yah" ...


Huge loss, 30+ PSA employees died in addition to all the pax, the Cessna people, and several on the ground ... and all
completely unnecessary; just one of those things ... to this day, I don't believe they could have seen the traffic -- I think it was below them ... a bad, bad day.

Good guys, all.
I passed on UAL to go to CAL, which at the time had the be$t contract and work rules. About the same time, I also had interviewed with Braniff and was put in their pool.... but I'm still waiting for their call. ;)

I was on cruise when the tragic PSA crash happened. But if you look at the VF-1 photo below, one of those guys in back in the pic left the Nav shortly after my arrival and when the picture was taken. Quickly hired by PSA, he was commuting home on the flight deck of PSA flight 182 within a year of this VF-1 photo.

[And A4s.... your shipmate's quote still haunts me even after so many years.]

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/9484/vf1shsx3.jpg
 

A4sForever

BTDT OLD GUY
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....But if you look at the VF-1 photo below, one of those guys in back in the pic left the Nav shortly after my arrival and when the picture was taken. Quickly hired by PSA, he was commuting home on the flight deck of PSA flight 182 within a year of this VF-1 photo ....
4th from the left, back row ??? I only ask as he looks familiar ...


 

FlyinRock

Registered User
I was involved with PSA in their training program out at Brown Field in '69. I had mostly the Japanese students with JAL and ANA. Damn that was 40+ years ago and I still remember the short skirts and "hotties" who were hired as flight attendants.....
Semper Fi
Rocky
 
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