In the very beginning, Eastern was a lot of fun. Then it became bigger, imported some different management and became somewhat less fun.
Nonetheless, where in England can a low time pilot even begin to find a job which allows him to fly reasonably sophisticated aeroplanes for hire and reward and with a degree of choice of bases as well?!
It's a good enough company and well worth a little trouble and effort to join. They know at Humberside that the airline is a stepping stone and not a career airline. You start there, go around the houses, and perhaps end there. I think all this whining is really rather shameful and continues to carry the flag for those who regard pilots as a whingeing self - aggrandising bunch of people neither satisfied with their individual lot nor possessing the collective gumption to band together to do something about it.
Now these thoughts might make me somewhat unpopular but then again, the employment policy at Eastern would seem to be affording work to pilots whilst allowing the company to expand, even to the extent of placing humourous advertisements in The Spectator, thereby creating the opportunity for yet more pilot placings.
So on that cheery note: Toodle Pip!
