Airline Pilots: Is Anybody Interested in Being One?

[trof]

9. No longer.

That was my case and used to be back in the day.
U.S. military pilots are the best trained in the world.
Hell, foreign governments sent their student pilots to us to be trained.

Now a pilot is usually better off to stay in the military until they get their 20 years in for retirement.
The pay and working conditions are generally better than for entry level airline pilots.

I made a damn good living and had great benefits (medical and dental insurance, pension).
Those days are gone, thanks to deregulation.


In my day we had very few 'civilian' pilots at TWA
Guys who had paid for every hour of their training.

I never paid to be trained.
From service in USAF to employment with TWA, I was PAID for every minute my butt was strapped into an airplane.
Them was the days.