It would be interesting to see what your honest opinion was of people making 5 times your income and bitching about taxes when you just started out... You know, when you were renting a place, trying to start a family etc. I'm sure you stood up and said "heck that captain sure pays to much taxes! Ma...

The guy making 300k hasn't been making 300k his whole career. Their was a time that that 300k wage earner was a 30 year old leach to society making peanuts and taking advantage of every social benefit for his young kids etc. So no the 300k wage earner is not contributing more to society. They are n...

We’re all just bickering about the price of human lives. At some point it boils down to that. Personally I’m just going to let the cards fall where they may, but I don’t think it’s justified to sh*t on the masses just because they’re scared [and you’re not]. Human lives will also be lost by the eco...

All of you talking about how we should just open it all back up need to take a look south today and see how that's working out for them. We didn't have that amount protests and riots here. Viruses don't care about people's politics and take advantage. It's not the protests. It's the shopping, resta...

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All of you talking about how we should just open it all back up need to take a look south today and see how that's working out for them.

We didn't have that amount protests and riots here. Viruses don't care about people's politics and take advantage.

Top 10% of the income earners in Canada pay 54% of the income tax collected. The bottom 40% of income earners pay no tax after government benefits. It's darn close to universal basic income at the expense of the top earners and the CERB isn't going to be easy to turn off now. Workers make at least ...

Science is not a consensus, and a consensus is not science. This reminds me of something a conspiracy theorist might say. I appreciate that you can disagree, and I'm glad that people are having respectful if heated discussions. This comment might have went further than you wanted though. Science wo...

60k income takes home 46k in Ontario 300k income takes home 174265 or about 4x as much take home. When gross was 5x. I wouldn't take silence for agreement on this one. 53.5% income tax is high on your top dollars in Ontario. in 2015 it was 46.5% when Wynne and Trudeau each raised income taxes to ou...

Jimmyh787 wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 2:52 pm After that embarrassing polarizing display, I’m going to guess none of you even took the time to read the most current projections I’ve previously posted. Here it is one more time, directly from the CDC, not a BS biased media source. https://www.cdc.gov/co...

Ggapl, I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic? The discussion is raising service fees when the aviation industry has been upended. ( pretty valid from where I’m sitting) Nobody ( that I’ve read) has advocated for “ minimum wage for controllers or others in the industry. I see a dialectical conversa...

Ggapl, I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic? The discussion is raising service fees when the aviation industry has been upended. ( pretty valid from where I’m sitting) Nobody ( that I’ve read) has advocated for “ minimum wage for controllers or others in the industry. I see a dialectical conversa...

ATC is an essential service. Joe Blo flying down to Cayo Coco with his family for some fun in the sun isn't essential. So comparing Air Canada's situation to that of NavCan's isn't entirely accurate. Yes, passengers will end up paying for these increases - that includes me btw -, but if you cant af...

Another major point that I think needs to be highlighted by the airlines, is that (as far as I have been able to find) is that there were no "super spreader" events that came from air travel. So even before the masks, it simply was not a major point of spread. You can’t possibly be serious. How do ...

Airplanes are responsible for circulating people around the planet, but on the actual flight there are (or at least were) no known super spreader events, which occur where people make moist on each other (weddings, funerals, religious services, curling bonspiels). Regular transmission probably occur...

Dearest Rockie, I do hope you put your helmet on today. You know, reduce the risk. You continually harp about the ‘experts’ and the ‘consensus’ on an approach to Covid. Whose experts? Putin’s experts? China’s experts? Maybe Italy’s experts or how about Sweden? The WHO? The same WHO that is clearly ...

Which is stupid. In no time I will accept furlough while those measures aren’t in place. Now that the shortage is over for years, they need to apply the duty regs now. I agree there is no logistical reason not to accept these rules. I would love to keep as many of us working as possible. It would o...

Lufthansa is on the cliffs edge now.....(like most airlines I'm sure.) It wont be the last either... Airlines need bailouts - or it's going to be a really hard future. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/lufthansa-mulls-bankruptcy-as-bailout-talks-stall/ar-BB13jUEP?ocid=spartanntp I wonder if bank...

If I'm able to hold 2 ideas in my head at the same time - that the disease is serious AND that the longer the economy is idled, the harder the recovery which will eventually result in serious tax shortfalls for heavy spending governments. Some people think there will be higher taxes to follow and ma...

So, what are you getting at, presenting a fact without opinion is meaningless! Are you advocating for antibody test or reopening the economy? Not speaking for anyone else, I think antibody testing is the key to reopening the economy. Falling numbers tell one story but not much about having another ...

lets move away from the fear, and make fact based decisions. One of every five New York City residents tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, according to preliminary results described by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday that suggested that the virus had spread far more widely than know...

So, this thread was about a dude who was wondering if it was worth it to start a career in aviation at 30....nice drift!

Thanks Ayseven! I hear ya. I have a pretty tight family and it's hard to stay away for too many days but I love flying. From what I read, in some cargo companies you're home almost everyday but as you said, flexibility is necessary and I'm sure every so often you'll get stuck somewhere! There is a ...

The pay is garbage for a widebody Skip. That's less than 97k USD a year. Since you know what the should not be can you enlighten us as to what the pay should be? I want to be on the right side of the law when the avcanada salary police knock on my door. You're joking right? Times haven't gotten tou...

I remember hearing about this in the planning stage. I would have been surprised with any other result. Madness. Sad for him and those who cared about him.

Thanks. I largely agree with you however I would say “incompetent pilots” are removed. I hope this MAX thing turns into a wake-up call for the entire industry, particularly with the declining experience levels that are occurring. I don’t agree with removing pilots completely. We only hear about pil...