The guys (kids!) I’ve been flying with at the local flight school are like that. CFIs that live at the airport and know to the decimal point the number 1500 - hours in their logbook. Great bunch. One of the alumni stopped by the other day in his regional pilot regalia, bragging about using Mach numbers and whatnot. Big stoke for dudes.
It's true, and along the same logic the best advice I've ever heard about this two-fold:
Might be a good idea to plan for it, but, like the Navy, it is all timing. During my 32 years in the Bigs, my airline went through just 3 furlough periods (not counting post 9/11 due to it not being a cyclical downturn ). And me, never came close to furlough. Most everyone takes the first offer they get from a major and quickly has too much invested seniority wise to leave. So again, like the Navy, a good bit of luck involved as well. No one at Pan Am ever thought it would evaporate one day or when it did, they would not make the transition to Delta.
Fronspirit or Spitier?Heard on NPR’s Marketplace Morning Edition that Frontier is buying Spirit?
Frontier and Spirit to merge, creating fifth-largest airline in U.S. in $6.6 billion deal
Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines have agreed to merge, creating what would become the fifth-largest airline in the country.www.cnbc.com
Not sure of the name, but with the green of Frontier and the yellow of Spirit, they could be the official airline of the Green Bay Packers…
You are kidding, right? Does it ever go smoothly? Certainly some better than others. Same union helps a lot.
The MEC lead at Spirit is a former neighbor and a good buddy (his son incidently is at the Hornet RAG at Miramar) - he is the veteran of a ton of mergers (and seniority integrations) and is well respected for his style no BS style and and is the genuine article. It will be interesting to see how this comes together.
