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Originally Posted by Jsan143

You’re clueless, luxury cockpits? Try being away from your family four days a week in crappy hotel rooms. Eating airport fast food in between flights, navigate around the weather, missing the holidays, by the way, hope you enjoy the Fourth of July! I can go on and on this from a retired airbus captain telling you If you think it’s as glorious as in the movies see if you can catch a ride with a crew for a month! By the way they’ve been negotiating a contract for seven years now with the inability to strike because of the Railway labor act which BENEFITS guess who the company. If you want to know what my pension is after 40 years at one of the top three major airlines, I’ll give you a hint it might’ve covered the car payment for a pinto back in the 70s! And that’s thanks to the bankruptcy back in 2012. They kick the can when times are good and then negotiate when times are bad and there’s no retro thanks to Railway labor act this is what they all do and the employees have to seek relief to strike which they never get. And when you’re in the airplane in the crews have been out there for over 10 hours still trying to get you to your Disney vacation I think they’re worth every penny and then 1000 time more! Safe travels, well you can always go on one of those low budget airlines, enjoy!

Great response.