All of you who want to be airline pilots in USA, read this...
www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php.t?=288355 You must be out of your mind to try to join airlines in USA, with such conditions well described by this text from the Wall Street Journal.
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When I arrived in USA (issued a "Green Card" in 1968), it was a paradise, the pay was above average, that country meant "liberty" and it was the "land of milk and honey".
Nothing is left of all that... This is 2007, not the 1960s...
All you see is Hollywood idiot movies and CNN indoctrination...
The "good life" - fast food McDonald's or "French restaurants" like Jacques in ze boxe...
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All the USA is, now, is a good place to train to get a pilot licence...
When PanAm declared bankruptcy in 1991, I lost a fortune in retirement investments.
I could not even continue my career as 747 captain with another US air carrier. All they offered me is to be a 727 F/E...
I was forced to sell my house and car, and declare personal bankruptcy.
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Salaries of low cost US carriers or regionals are dismal. For years you will be a F/O for a yearly salary (and rare benefits) of some $25,000, in a country where an average house will cost you $250,000+ to buy. And maybe like me, you will furloughed many years and forced to work in other countries.
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Why not be an airline pilot in another nation, at a salary of $75,000/year, or its equivalent in rupees, dirhams or pesos (it does not matter), and be able to buy a house or apartment for $100,000, in a nice area, and enjoy life as a upper class individual and respected professional, with all the benefits offered there, medical insurances, high retirement, and liberal travel benefits...?
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I left USA in 1992 for good...
To make room for idiots who want to go there.
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Happy contrails