I hope I am wrong about this, but I really get the feeling from reading alot of these posts that there is a sense of excitement that CAL pilots might have to go through a furlough. It seems as though many XJT pilots are thinking "It's their turn to get screwed." I am a former XJT pilot, now at CAL, I can remember thinking when they announced that 69 airplanes were being pulled that CAL was the enemy, but certainly not the CAL pilots.
Let's not forget that until a week ago things were not looking good for XJT pilots either. But with the exception of a few class of 83-85 pilots, nobody at CAL was excited to see Express take a turn for the worse. Most everybody that I talked with felt very badly about what was happening to XJT. When we were still hiring I, and countless other pilots at CAL, helped as many XJT people as we could get over to CAL.
Those of us that came to CAL did so because we felt it was the right decision at the time, and I still do. Even if I have to endure the furlough I will still come back to a good job that I really enjoy. I feel that the different types of flying that we do has led to a better quality of life for myself and my family. Sure, I wish things were better now, but I will never regret my decision to make the jump when I did.
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