Back in ‘83 when I enlisted in the USAF, I had some grandiose plans...
Was going to serve for 4 years, get experience and skills and go “make the big money” working for the airlines...
Didn’t quite work out that way...the turbulent early to mid 80s created a flood of unemployed airline workers...
Some big name airlines went under or got bought out.. Pan Am, Eastern, TWA, Braniff, America West, Peoples, Midway, Midwest Express, ..more recently Northwest, Continental, US Air-- prolly missed a few.
PS-- Dont forget the Trump shuttle but shhhhhh-- dont remind Mittens, ehehehe.
I started in 82, made it to big league in 87