Originally Posted by
YellowTom
The airlines always get bad press when as people here are suggesting the USAF needs to look closer to home than blame them.
In the USA, airlines taking military pilots is merely the natural order of things...always has been to my understanding of history. I don't hear it carrying any blame.
What's different in our current chapter of history is the USAF having meetings with airline management about how to stem the flow...and allegedly to some mutual benefit accruing to both parties.
This is due to the staggering number of mandatory retirements on the airline books.
This is akin to negotiating with the foxes guarding the hen house door about limiting chicken inflow. It's actually pretty funny because the airlines
WILL fill seats and they want every frikkin' military pilot they can get their hands on. They'll get them.