Career progression is not about letting someone 'have thier turn'.
I'm at best halfway through my career and wouldnt expect anyone at the top to step down out of kindness.
If anyone 'wants thier turn' there are (where) plenty of opportunities overseas. If you want to float in the slow moving pool of progression in Australia then live with the consequences, or dont have kids/mortgage. I have, and it's fine by me.

$5 million super you can’t be talking about Qantas pilots then.

Green.Dot - Many older pilots do not have the stunning amounts of super that you fantasize about. They have just as much right to continue working as younger pilots. :ugh:

I would be surprised if there was any pilot in Qantas with that amount of super.

Super would have been divided up a few times with a few ex wives over the years! Super value these days is dropping faster than a 'Max' -) Don't forget guys all this 'free money' the corrupt Govt are handing out now means HIGHER cost of living for all of us especially those that are about to retire!

Still along way off the mark, keep trying.

Are you calling the 380 captain who was boasting over dinner in LAX about his super only a few months ago a liar?

Something about still having to pay off his second wife or something. Can't really remember. There was just so much verbal diarrhea.

Sure, just as soon as those senior folks start a thread demanding a job on the "light twin" because of their "seniority".

I can’t believe that this ****e is for real? Has to be one of Alan’s poodles trolling to create a division amongst the Drivers, surely. Mate, seriously, $5m in Super?? Could be one or two worth that, but not many, and if so it’s only because they’ve been smart with their money and haven’t pissed it away on bad investments or on the type of **** that Gen Y (or whatever they are today) indulge in. Typical Generation who don’t want to start or stay on the bottom rung, but want to start on the top rung. Those older Pilots you talk about also spent a good decade in the RHS mate before becoming a Captain. Settle down and wait your turn, that’s the way it has always been. If the tables were turned would you agree to being pushed out the door so some younger ungrateful selfish f#ck could pay off his overinflated mortgage and matching SS Commodores and matching Jetski’s blah blah blah. I hope the ollder Pilots stay sonthat the likes of you have to move to Russia or Africa to gain their prized coveted command!!!

Perhaps that waterfront retirement in Sydney or the on Gold Coast will end up being taken in an Asian country instead ? $$$ go a lot further in Thailand, Malaysia or the Philippines.

There are a few who should eff off. Not because they are old, but because they are absolute bell ends. Should have gone 20 years ago. Mostly though, the old blokes in SH are pretty freakin awesome to fly with.

A whole decade in the RHS?


More entitled boomer snowflake BS

Oh please. Get real. It's only a minority. I recommend you get onto some webinars and listen to the questions indirectly being asked. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what they are actually asking.

Who gives a s#$t how much super they have. I hear some S/O’s gloating about how much money they make. Being a W-Anchor is not exclusive trait of senior pilots. Again, Why should they retire just because the junior people want them to? Get over yourselves. No matter what you may think of yourselves, you are not that important to anybody else. FFS.

Given that there are no reliable forecasts, (at least none that I am willing to rely on yet), as to where inflation will be going in the future, I would think that early retirement would be quite a gamble.

This is almost as funny as 20 somethings crying about having a turn in the backseat of the dugong.

‘It’s not fair that the senior guys hang around and we won’t get a turn before it goes’.

If the old fellas want to stick around. All the power to them. It sucks for us, but if you listen to them, you might learn a thing or two for when your turn comes.

Anyway keep up the good work. This thread is giving sweet relief to the boredom.

​​​There is always two sides to this. Those 55 year+ Captains have only got a couple of years left and are unlikely to get hired anywhere else, and the new guys have got another 30 years in them and are way more hireable.

Seniority is a double edged sword. Without it, cronyism and nepotism creep in, with it everyone gets a crack at the top jobs, even the ones who struggle with their checks.

Me thinks the vocal minority who whinge about people above them not moving on will be the very ones who themselves dont move on when their time comes to otherwise step aside :rolleyes:

I think a lot will be persuaded to retire by circumstance. A lot of pilots on 4 engined fleets are looking at a lot longer than 6 months off work. For many it'll be closer to when replacement aircraft arrive, which could be until 2023 when the A350 arrives.

So if you're late 50's/early 60's, you're going to be looking at several years without flying before having to complete a full type rating and return to work for just a few years back in the F/Deck anyway. Will the time off spent on the farm/at the holiday house up the coast/doing the lap of honour in the caravan etc maybe convince them that red eyes/jet lag/sims is something for the younger crowd and to hang up the hat for good?

There are selfish entitled w***ers on both ends of the Seniority list, slinging mud at each other like a bunch of catty teenagers on social media. Honestly, it's pathetic to watch but we need to remember, they're the minority.
Not every Junior Pilot has thrown all the toys onto their mortgage in the same manner that not every senior pilot has ridden the gravy train for 30+ years and is sitting on Millions of Super with their first wife.
If/When COVID is behind us, dare I say a few guys will be buying their own Beers for a while... if they were brave enough to put their names behind all the vitriol they've been hurling.