American Airlines pilot penalized for sticker on plane

This is why they are are so mad.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06082007/watch.html

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Originally Posted by mizjasterzero

This is why they are are so mad.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06082007/watch.html

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Did I miss something? I didn't see any mention of AA in that piece. It talked about what happened at NWA, Delta & US when they came out of bankruptcy, something AA never went through.

I usually side with labor, but this was something stupid this pilot did. If I deliberately defaced company property, I'd be lucky to end up with a one month suspension.

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Originally Posted by Informant

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May I ask, didn't you know what the industry would be like before you opted to join it?

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Of course but like everyone else we looked toward the sky in hopes of a better future.

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Again, that is a very romantic way of looking at it, but its not realistic. What you are implying is that you knew the industry and what lied ahead but joined it anyway with a glimmer of hope that things would get better.

Reminds of one of my favorite quotes:

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

the addendum to that is...."unless you are talking about the aviation industry."


As I said, I thank Embry for educating me on what lied ahead. Now I don't have to complain about it.

The link to the airline pilot forum was informative. It showed a bunch of supposed (I say supposed b/c I don't know how hte site credentials users) pilots bitching and moaning about non-pilots. One goes so far to bash spotters and call out Phil D.
Any empathy from me was lost right there.

When my field changed to having to deal with managed care, I didn't cry on a forum and
bash others for not understanding. I weathered the change, adapted and evolved.

I can see the anger when the pilot was told to quit crying and just become an executive. That was great advice. Leave the field and reach for something else.

I know of one user here, who can speak up if he wishes, who was a pilot and seeing what the industry would be, changed gears completely.

No one is bashing pilots outright here. But coming from a field who also has the "right" to cry about their industry, I too would like to understand why pilots have it so bad.