It is a great video that will entice a lot of young people! Promoting the amazing airline pilot lifestyle, a novel idea!
However, one day those young people will realize that being just another replaceable employee of yet another nasty airline's management sucks the life out of you, and that flying from Point A to Point B to Point A yet again, during a 10-hour all-nighter duty yet again, during weekends and holidays and birthdays yet again, day after day yet again, or cruising to Point B yet again for 13 hours again with 2 minutes of straight and level "handling" to another ILS/GLS landing yet again, or spending days on end alone in hotels while sleeping during the day and staying up all night, or wasting hour after hour, day after day trying to get somewhere while stressed out on unnecessarily difficult yet relatively expensive standby staff travel, well none of that has anything to do with dreams or serving or stars or heaven or anything other than a paycheck. And with all of this comes many of the unbearable characters you have to spend half your life with, including those who "just love" sitting in a metal cylinder for days, the many with no identity or will to live unless they are wearing their awesome uniforms they think others are impressed by, and of course those compensating for their personal deficiencies by harassing whoever they can with their own version of psychological warfare.
Well, it only matters if they are actually lucky enough to get a real airline job that lasts long enough before they have to start at the bottom again, if they don't get fired or lose their medical certificate first.
Good luck with that!
Last edited by Iron Skillet; 30th Sep 2011 at 09:01.