Posts Tagged ‘Airline’

Is Flying for a Living Fun?

I remember getting my private pilots license and learning how to fly.  It was so fun and new that I thought it would be the greatest thing to do it for a living.  Today so many professional pilots are fighting for their jobs or their quality of life.  Some insist on bringing unions into their [...]

Aviation Education

Every once in while I run across a question like,  “what aviation college is best to prepare for a pilot career?”  I try to stop and answer that question but a lot of times the answer is longer that it really should be. I went to school and majored in Flight Technology.  While it gave [...]

Commuting To Work

I like to get up in the morning and have a nice cup of coffee and watch the local news.  A lot of times they will talk about the traffic and refer to it as your commute to work.  It kind of makes me chuckle a little bit since commuting to work in the airline [...]

Stigma and Flying Airplanes

Stigmas are funny things; people make assumptions based on what they have heard to be truths and then those assumptions end up growing legs.  Being a commercial pilot is a lot different today then it was in the seventies.  Yet that 70’s lifestyle is what everyone seems to think applies to today’s commercial pilot.  Here [...]

The Filthiest Office in the World

I bet you did not know that an airline cockpit is the filthiest office you have ever seen.  I would be willing to bet if you asked 10 different passengers on ten different days, they would all be surprised to hear that.  Most passengers do not see the cockpit that much and if they do [...]

The Worst Airlines

I saw a very interesting post in the news the other day and it talks about the worst airlines according to customer service and the way the passengers are treated by the crews.  The lucky winners are: Delta United Alaska American USAirways I found this interesting from a different perspective than just passengers just complaining [...]

A Good Flight is Uneventful

I  got a call yesterday from scheduling asking me for a favor.  As most aviators know when you do a favor for the company they never really do one back for you.  So its kind of a wheel and deal situation since they were calling me on my day off.  Most of the time when [...]