Once again please remember that...
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Seggy
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Is this the random thought thread?
Oh no, this is after spending a few days with a guy who started his career at 22, on the 747, at Peoples Express Airline...
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
He didn't move over to CO post merger?
Seggy
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That is exactly what he did. He had an option to go to USAIR or CO. At the time CO was looking pretty bleak and USAIR pretty good. If he went to USAIR he would just be getting off reserve on the 737. He is bidding 757/767 Captain at CO.
YOU NEVER KNOW!
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Okay, got ya now. I thought this guy was your captain on a trip at Colgan.
Was gonna say, to start out in this career at 22 on the 747, and to end up a Colgan captain on a 1900, wow...to say the least.
C150J
Well-Known Member
Career dyslexia... Awesome!
Max - I didn't take that special agent jobby, FYI.
aussieflyer
New Member
hows colgan these days since it was bought by 9E ??? Has much changed for the better or for the worse????
Seggy
Well-Known Member
In all honesty, Colgan isn't that bad of a place to be, never has been.
There are changes that I have seen going on. There are going to be big changes down the road.
Once we have ALPA on property, we will have a unified voice as a pilot group. That is the biggest change we need.
tonyw
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I'd say that pretty much applies to any career path you choose.
If you told me when I graduated from college that I'd be working where I am now and that I'd get the job because of someone who I met on an internet bulletin board, I'd have laughed my ass off at you.
Of course, back in the dark ages of the early 1990s, there were no such things as internet bulletin boards so it'd be really easy to laugh your ass off at someone who even said that phrase.
If you told me when I graduated from college that I'd be working where I am now and that I'd get the job because of someone who I met on an internet bulletin board, I'd have laughed my ass off at you.
Of course, back in the dark ages of the early 1990s, there were no such things as internet bulletin boards so it'd be really easy to laugh your ass off at someone who even said that phrase.
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
For now, I don't think management wants to rock the boat with the union push going on over there. Too much change, ALPA winds up on property for sure, and they lose the ability to whipsaw Colgan against us. If anyone thinks things at Colgan will be the same in a few years as they are now, I've got some land to sell ya in S FL.....
Cruise
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Man, I've been preaching that since day one of this "buyout." They, 9E, will continue to make very small incremental changes so the "bees" (Colganites) continue to make the honey without interuption. Then, if the changes are made slowly enough, many won't notice......but they're coming. Many over here know it and see it; but some just like the sweet nectar of Kool-Aid the Colgan's are selling.
Mark my words, the Colgan of today, will not be the Colgan of tomorrow as much as management would have us believe. I give it another year or two, maybe three.....but I don't think it'll go that far.