Congrats to our mystery member
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ian
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Maximilian_Jenius
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ClarkGriswold
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Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
RetiredATLATC
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Could be worse
Cessnaflyer
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Congrats! Get to move from Canadian French to the real French.
ASpilot2be
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Congrats!
Maximilian_Jenius
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Everyone hates on United, but I like them. I like underdogs.
Screaming_Emu
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In my experience they have the chillest pilot group of "the big three."
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There is absolutely nothing underdog-like about them.
(I prefer scrappy competitors who believe that they’re going to change the business - it’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.)
Maximilian_Jenius
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Meh. . .
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Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
I’m apparently too dumb to wear a hat.
(The alternative outcome is highly, highly satisfactory, and for this I am very excited. And wondering why I waited so long.)
Maximilian_Jenius
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Eh, you're one of the smartest and most laser focused, dedicated guys that I know. I could have really used that stuff when I was your age. Instead of staying on task, I got distracted and let life get in the way. Had I not, I wouldn't be playing catch up and would be in a far better place career wise than I am now.
Everything happens for a reason. Even if we don't know why. Glad to hear that you're excited about the future. Now get out there and make us all proud. But more importantly yourself.
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Maximilian_Jenius
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His name is Mister E.
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Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
Whatever intellectual deficiency I have obviously has precluded me from success in academia, in training and in eight years of professional aviation.
I'm very excited. From the first interaction, I really felt like I belonged there. And I think that their model and business is a masterful understanding of consumer behavior in air travel, and also an understanding that a jet that is not in motion is not making any money. (And apparently there's a tray table up front and fantastic quality of life, too.) I had fun at my interview, too, which is NOT something I can say about pretty much any other airline interview I've done thus far - most of them are about somewhere between a visit to the in-laws (tolerable, but you're on edge) and what I imagine a conscious colonoscopy feels like.
It's been a long couple of weeks between work, school and wearing my suit, for sure - I have to admit, the timing (I had just walked across from the Kremlin with a "not tier one" letter and a card to call reservations) was pretty interesting as well. Exhausted but proud and happy.
Karnage
I-am-a-pirate. I do not need credentials!
Congrats man! Only flew with you a time or two before I escaped the land that civilization forgot but you will be missed. And not just because of the fact that you were one of the few captains I literally had to look up to. My neck hurts just thinking about it.