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Originally Posted by seafeye
People think the life of an airline pilot is glamorous. I gotta tell you that eating alone, sleeping alone, watching tv alone, running alone, 200 days a year gets old.
No longer do Pilots and flight attendants share the same schedule. Our work rules are different and usually swap crews after each leg. Domestic speaking. Then the guy to your left or right. The one you just met and will probably never see after the trip, is probably 20 years younger or older.
And they have given up trying to be social. Many are slam clickers. Meaning, get to the hotel room. Slam the door and hit the TV remote. Only to be seen the next morning.
Computers have made our schedules so precise that it’s litterly down to the minute, every day of our lives. Granted, we finally have decent pay scales. But the job is very lonely. I’d hate my kids to be doing this...
Good thing we have pelican forums. It makes the overnights bearable.
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I have a good fiend that is a Captain.
He used to be a real life Quagmire. Single and did some major damage to the FA's for a few years.
He had me laughing, one time he was sitting in the bar with a lesbian FA they were comparing notes on all the FA's they had been to bed with.
Yes, he is on the road a lot and alone a lot, he never seems lonely to me. He is typically out with people doing things seeing things etc...
Every once in a while when he has a longer layover near me, he will jump seat down and hang out for an evening then jump back the next morning.
He just got married the Quagmire years are behind him now.