Air Bus
The flight from NYC to Allentown has been a bus for many years.
It’s not indicated as such and surprised me when the bus pulled up to the gate rather than a plane.
Retire.
Uh huh.
As Ron White would have said: If only they had a globe.
Gotta re-write a Sinatra classic...
Drive me to the Moon
let me play among he stars...
The problem with demanding “diversity, inclusion, and equity” in all the hiring, is that you forego competence. There are no competent pilots leaving the military that can fill these positions and no competent people being enrolled in flight schools (you have to make room in those classes for diversity). Next, add in those many pilots who are not able to fly due to medical issues brought on by the vaccine, along with those they were discharged or fired due to NOT getting the vaccine, you end up with a pilot shortage. Who didn’t see this coming?
So,you pay airline prices and you get a bus.🙄
A bus probably is faster than flying overall, considering all the folderol at the gates, waiting around for hours, loading planes, taxiing, etc.
Lotta guys took the packages over the last year.
Don’t know anyone who regretted it. Flying for a living aint what it used ta be.
But there’s still a ton o’ kids out there banging around in RJs for SkyWest, Compass etc and they’re gonna be movin up fast.
Which is good cuz they’re good, one of the best trained, seasoned generations in flying history - they fly modern glass cockpit jets every day in every kind of condition.
There is never a real pilot shortage.
Just an upper limit on what the majors are willing to cough up.
Airplanes identifying themselves as busses.