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I got an early retirement offer at your current age. After looking at what all they offered. I could not sign on the dotted line fast enough. One of the best things I did in my life. It has now been 15 years and I have enjoyed every minute of retirement.
@Rick Anderson: Congrats! I retired early after getting a buyout during the 9/11 dip. (Survived by becoming a gig worker, before there was a real "gig.") I'm still doing online gigs from home - best job ever, when u never have to leave your SOHO. But without Social Security, I'd be destitute. My major corp. pension did not work out as planned. Don't believe the lies that Fund Mgrs. will tell you early in your career, u will need to pack away more than u think that you will ever need, just to get what is projected early on. I didn't know that, and was just shocked by the result.
I am a 70-year old retired airline pilot and I STILL remember being a kid following a proper snow-storm. In my case it was not a paltry foot-and-a-half of vertical wet snow, we're talking a 3-day 40-knot blizzard where the snowfall is HORIZONTAL! What a fabulous time - without any regard for grown-up worries like disrupted communications and transportation. A prolonged electrical power outage was an adventure, not a problem. We are, right now, experiencing a 3-day, 40 knot blizzard in my Nordic country, with NO power outages (hardened power grid, no overhead lines), actually a boon in these virus-infected times. We are quite used to temporary isolation, no problem there. The aviation industry is probably the flakiest of them all. I got my first job in 1977 and finished in 2015, and I have seen it all. I would not recommend this career to anyone today! The best part of my life is right now, flying ultralights and special-performance aircraft for my own enjoyment while I can still pass my medical. Good riddance to bad rubbish...
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Getting caught in a storm like you described is on my bucket list of things to do. I'll settle for 25 knot winds though. :-)
@@rztrzt, open ultralights are rather rare in Iceland. Ultralight flying in winter is actually almost non-existing, but NOT due to the cold (-10°C or colder is rare and short-lived, usually with low humidity). The short days are the cause of the hibernation (Reykjavík is at 64°N, I now live in Ísafjordur at 66°N). To compensate, we have long summer days - the longest day here is almost 3 months!
Thanks Juan - great analysis as usual. Agree, good time to be out on medical with all the uncertainties. Glad you’re through it and back to the line soon. Beautiful images of the snow at your place.
Hi Juan, thanks for the most up-to-date news on the airlines. Sad but reality. Thanks for your sober, accurate and timely updating. - Dean from Minnesota P.A. Great to see the snow -- 15 inches -- nice!
I love seeing all that snow at your house because here at my house, about 10 miles away, it's been a nice rain for the past few days! No power outage! There's no need to shovel rain! lol! I enjoy every one of your reports!
I'm a dispatcher for a major Canadian airline and I'm also immune compromised. It's a pretty scary time up here. Hoping for the best for us and for the whole industry.
Company: "Check out our "Golden Handshake" early retirement offer!" Loyal employee: "I'm no quitter, I'll stick it out!" Company 6 months later: "Your services are no longer required." Loyal employee: "How about the Golden Handshake?" Company: "Sorry, no longer available."
This is why employees are no longer Loyal Employees. The big companies have become disloyal as of 20 years ago and now they will pay for it in many ways. Non loyal employees are worthless to almost every employer out there.
@@Garth2011 - I don't know how much of a pension my aunt actually got from Diamond Shamrock. I do know that she sure as heck didn't stop working. Matter of fact, she was still working well past age 65.
As a retired United Airlines Ground service instructor I have been through the good and bad of the industry, back in 1998 when United was going good and the employee's held stock in United called ESOP and I desired to retire, well I owned about $60.000 in stock and I could either save it and hope it goes up or thank God cash it in . My wife and I decided to cash in and turn it into CD's (Thank God I did) right after that United claimed bankruptcy and if you had stock it was worthless. They also took our pension which was company paid and gave it to the PBCG which meant the government pays me my pension now. The only problem they have a max they pay out $3500 which screwed most of the pilots who retired at a much higher pay rate. So pray the Airlines hang in there and don't claim Bankruptcy. At my time the 401k just started and I wasn't in it. Your still young and I don't know your seniority but hope it's up there. In our Union every thing was based on seniority so we had typical offers like you were quoting. We did keep our travel benefits which were greatly modified and lost our company Life insurance. Try and get life insurance at 62 !Just hope that ugly word Bankruptcy don't jump into your picture. Good luck and pray your medical issue is resolved. I had a high PSA and had two biopsy's both negative but live with BPH ! 83 year old C-47 crew chief and they called us a flight engineer also because we flew with our plane 1954-1959
What happens if the airline goes out of business? Will these early retirement guys still get their 50 hours of pay until age 65? What about the PBGC ? So many questions. Keep up the good investigating reporting. You could always be a major network contributing reporter.
Juan, I love seeing that snow! Finally the drought maybe over for northern California. Hopefully your rolling blackouts are over for at least a year anyway. Love your take on aviation and life in general. Have a great month👍
It’s times like these I’m glad I took early retirement. Kind of unheard of in corporate aviation but our flight department was downsizing and I was offered an excellent buyout deal. As much as I miss flying every day, I’m not missing what I’d be going through right now. With all the airlines cutting back drastically I’d never be home, extra flights. Stay safe out there.
Hey Captain, check the hull at the trailer load bearing points. That hit could have cracked the composite hull too. Good luck with the new mast. I've a mid-1970's vintage limited production trailer sailer and getting the right parts for that would be a real challenge. Lucky the Catalina is a popular boat.
The airlines made billion$ in profits over the last several years. Instead of re-investing in employees and equipment, they bought back shares, thus making money for the execs and rich investors.
Well before that the airline received a bail out in '08 did that money go in shareholder/executive's pockets it's been rumored. the airline industry will get another bail out this time around also, (I don't fly so I don't keep up with the general news of the airline industry unless it's unavoidable in the news) couple videos backs Juan talked about the planes need to stay in the air to make money I took that as the airlines are on thin ice to going broke. That's not the case as you stated their making profits, the airline industry should take advice I've been told keep 6 months worth of money in reserve for unforseen emergencies.
Hey Juan. Good Show, Love The Snow. Sorry about Your Boat. My Dad had a Sailfish, Sunfish? We’d Strap it on top of the 1967 Ford Wagon & Go Camping every summer. One time, Wind came up & boat turned over on the lake. My Mom wasn’t Very Happy when the got back. Ehhh eh. Love the Back porch?! Hopefully Mentour Pilot Came By For a Visit. I gave you a shoutout. He’s having a Livestream Tomorrow. Keep Circling The Wagons!!! CJ
A bent mast, how sad. I learned to sail on a Cat 22, navigating the Detroit River up to Lake St. Clair. Joe, a former Navy Corpsman to Marines, my best friend took pitty on me, a Marine rifleman, in sharing his passion. I'd take him flying in return. Now we sail a Catalina 30, great for visiting the marinas of Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Keep the keel side down, hoping you're flying and sailing real soon.
Thanks for the update. You can try looking around the Santa Cruz harbor for a mast. There's a magazine for sailboats there - I think it's called "Harbor" magazine, not sure. Try doing a search. It has local classified ads for sailboats. I'm pretty sure they have good repair facilities there. The tree doesn't look too hot, especially if it's losing branches. I just had to take down a mulberry for much the same reason. I didn't like it, but would like it even less if it fell on the house. Good luck to the airlines. Right now things look pretty precarious for all of us. In Santa Clara you are practically taking your life in your hands if you go for a quart of milk. Hopefully this, too, shall pass sooner than later.
This panic is out of control. The long term effect of this is going to hurt long after the virus is gone. The over reaction to the virus will cause more damage than tbe virus ever could. In my neck of the world they are forcing people to shut their business and to stop their livelyhood.
If you can't scare up a decent used mast (look carefully around fittings for galvanic corrosion), you should be able to buy a bare extrusion relatively cheaply enough. My first stop would be the Catalina class association if there is one, they'll have the leads for those things. The masts for these mass produced trailer sailers were usually based off a standard, off the shelf extrusion to keep costs down, so are usually still available. With your A & P background, it'll be pretty straightforward for you to remove all the old mast hardware and rivet it all back on, with liberal applications of Duralac (which goes everywhere except where it's needed!). Just inspect your rigging terminals (swages) to make sure they look decent, if they need replacing, a good used rig may make better financial sense.
Thanks for another look into the inner workings of the airline industry. As an outsider it appears that your industry recognizes the talent required to be a line pilot day after day. Probably because of the strength of your union. I’m guessing that for a guy like you, Juan, the financial issues are, of course, important, but I suspect the status of being grounded for a long period is very difficult, as well. Clearly “Aviating” is in your blood. My hope (beyond the wish for all to beat the c-virus) is that you will have your flight status restored because when I sit in the back, I want a crew that is not only competent, but absolutely has to fly to be happy. Clearly that describes you, Juan.
"Pretty" easy to repair fibreglass back to basically all of its original strength though. Repairing an Alu mast is basically not an option, you cant just bend it back or go nuts and weld a lot in a mast, that would just not hold up. Sure, on a yacht this size, it could maybe work, the mast may well be a fair bit overdimensioned for the loads, but still, unless you can make a sleeve that fits perfectly inside the tube, I would not even consider repairing the mast :) Fibreglass can be cut, sanded and laminated back to together, and on a normal cruisingyacht, it will be more than strong enough if done fairly correctly. It can be pretty labour intensive of course, and few things suck as much as sanding fibreglass (thats basically why I´m not a professional boatbuilder anymore).
Mr. Brown, love your vid's. Thank you for all your time involved. In a future video please discuss what large aircraft you enjoy to fly and why. Thank you again.
Wrong, that mast is BENT. BENDING a mast has nothing to do with rake, rake is the angle of the mast aft of center, pre-bent spars are illegal in most classes, and Catalina 22 does not allow pre-bent spars. Bending the mast through the back stay alters the shape of the mainsail, typically flattening it for better performance in high winds.
@@LoosMoose I doubt it, those trailer sailors have masts like wet noodles. Remember the mass profile is asymmetric if it rotates off the long axis it's going to bend super easy and come right back.
I wish Boeing didn't scrap the 75. It seems the B757 would have been a great platform to strap on the new big efficient high-bypass engines, especially with the tall LG. I think that would have made a great competitor with the a321neo. But I'm no expert.
I was downsized out of the telecommunications sector on an early retirement in 2001, best thing ever. I was worried about it but really you live to a level that you can afford and as long as you did not get too used to living high off the hog all is well with the world. I hope that most of the folks affected by this have as good an experience as I did. That's Juan way of looking at it anyway.
Juan - Just last year we were told by some aviation analysts at UTC that this was the golden age of commercial air travel. Full flights most of the time, for an extended period of years. How can they have failed to save some funds for a downturn?
@Kyros - for the last 5 years or so flights have been packed. That golden age phrase was used by an analyst during an annual report on what to expect - and it was all about continued growth.
Doug Hardy they had to give it to shareholders to create more demand for the stock rather than save for rainy days. I hope this changes -the greed- as we move forward.
So much of this screams “medical insurance slavery obligations”... It’s sad that the political outlook in USA is to continue to force citizens to be tied to their jobs or risk losing their personal and family medical insurances. And they’re trying to get this happening in the UK where I am. We have an NHS and all emergency treatment is free at the point of need. Corporate Lobbyists are trying to pressurise politicians and MPs to continue privatising our NHS and eventually force UK public into medical insurance schemes. These will undoubtedly put commercial liens against our houses and assets, and when the sick person dies, the insurance firms come knocking for the debts to be cleared. Any Inheritence that the kids were due, gets snatched back. Why? Because it’s all down to home ownership and taking out mortgages with banks. If you borrow $100,000 for example, the bank don’t lend a penny, but generate fresh dollars as an “advanced credit” for you to buy the house. Then shortly after the transaction is complete, the bank securitises the signed paperwork that you penned and that is tied to your physical house, and they sell it to Hedgefunds and property speculators for 25x the borrowed amount (the bank makes $2.5m off your $100,000 contract) via AAA Portfolios. This is all factual. Not fiction. But the majority of the public don’t know. They think the bank lends them money from the bank’s own reserves. Nope. Not even close.
happy saint patricks day from ireland we have had the wettest febuary on record would love some snow stay safe ryanair and aerlingus will ground all in 7 days
20 years ago I had to make a decision on who I wanted to work for. I'm thanking my lucky stars that I chose to work for a cargo company! I've been able to escape the airline drama so far.......So far:)
Great video as always. I have been downsized myself (As of next month). This is the first time I've ever lost a job. I've no idea how I will pay to keep my licence current and keep my 73 rating. Any advice from a seasoned airline pilot such as yourself would be greatly appreciated! Happy landings!
Juan, we had a bent mast on our sailboat and somehow the magicians at our local small machine shop straightened it. $60! Thank you for the video. Now, back to Fate is the hunter.
Another great report from snowbound headquarters. Hope it will all work out in your favor and we all get back in the air soon. Pilots and passengers....
Over twenty years ago my dad was a senior medical officer for a major airline that decided to outsource their medical department. He could see the writing on the wall - they didn't SAY they were outsourcing, but he could tell they were - and they offered early retirement which included 2 years of pay AND work-flight-privileges for life. My dad grabbed it, and was still getting paid when what was left of the medical team, including his boss (the chief medical officer of the airline, or whatever they called him), got let go with a much worse deal. My dad is in his 90's, and still flying all over the world for next to nothing, although not at the moment... Good luck, Juan - I hope you can figure out which way to jump, and stick the landing as well as my dad did.
A Tangerine: Horribly wrong! Took a package when I was offered one a while back.The company private insurance was MUCH better and cheaper than my current BS medicare. Covered MUCH more and far easier to deal with than Government...............
Retired AA pilot, check airman and APD and Flight Attendant ! Life in the Airlines has changed so much! May God Bless You All.🥰😇🙏🏼♥️ We lived through 911, it was tough, but we survived. 😇 My husband was the Captain 39 years and I was the F/A who flew for 32 years who is writing this. All the best on your decisions! May God bless all 😇🙏🏼😘!
Whew! Glad your roof/structure wasn’t taken out by that portion of the old oak that fell. Sorry about the “yacht” mast! Might need to build or buy a ready-made structure to protect your stuff. Here in West Tennessee, We’re still reeling from a rogue wind event from back in October that took out many trees and roofs and collapsed our sunporch. Poor Middle Tennessee still deals with death and destruction of two EF-4s a couple weeks ago. Hope your medical leave paperwork gets you back in the pilot seat quickly and from the sound of it, looks like you may be sliding over into that PIC seat and get that fourth gold bar on your epaulet. MOST importantly, that you continue to stay as well as possible and PSA numbers stay low! Can’t think of a more deserving pilot than our own Juan Browne and family, live from the Blancolirio Global Headquarters!
Guessing this event will give $$$$ relief to Boeing's 737 MAX grounding. Boeing will be able to adjust the amount paid to customers impacted by the grounding.
I'm not sure. Ground crews, service personal, and everyone involved in the development are probably also affected by the measures to lower the probability of an infection.
Can't say for sure - Boeing has contractual agreements with airlines to deliver the max within a specified timeframe - I don't know if the corona virus provides Boeing with a way out of paying compensation - however there are two sides to every coin - the airlines are contracted to take deliveries and the last thing airlines need is capital expenditure and capacity at this time
Mr Brown's favorite aircraft is a 757 - good man - I can imagine that Mr Brown's view is probably based on the airframe and engine combination - looks like the RB 211 has also been complimented by Mr Brown
SpinFast, it costs a fortune to have planes sit on the ground and maintained, keep up permissions to use airports, many expenses. I expect some airlines will go bankrupt without government welfare, but how long before the peasants say enough corporate welfare?
Thank you Juan! Related topic, I saw a Wall Street Journal comment that airlines are in talks for $50 Billion in financial aid with the government. Times they be a changin.
Excellent presentation - very informative and...a bit shocking! The ripple-effect of this pandemic could be much wider than we think in other areas, too!
They just released the info for the flight attendants and they are going to give them the shaft unlike the deal they gave to the pilots that can afford to retire. No cash no early out nothing even close to comparable to the pilot deal. What they are going to do is wait and find that none of them take the deal because its cheaper to lay them off.
Or some quick thinking people sees an opportunity to take out senior pay and half it. Then getting, already in the pipeline cheaper pilots, X3 per half of the senior, in the seat to meet requirement when the situation resolves. Cost reduction, aircraft good to fly.
I keep hearing about grounded aircraft and travel bans to and from certain countries. But as I watch my ads-b scope I don't see much slowdown of air traffic. I see plenty of airliners coming in from and going out to Canada, China, Korea, France, UA Emirates (Arabia), etc. And absolutely no slow down of Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and SkyWest Airlines flights. --- This snow is effecting us down here in the valley too. I was going to go to town today for my regular bi-weekly grocery trip. Phoned ahead, since it's 15 miles to town I didn't want to just run in there to find empty shelves. Because all the idiots are panic buying, the store shelves are bare. And because Highway 80 is closed due to snow, no new shipments will be coming in till the highway is open again. I'm fine here, I always have at least a couple months of supplies on hand. The city folk who "have to" go to the store every day, or multiple times a day, are in a bad way though (but at least they all have a 2 year supply of toilet paper. :> I'll just wait till next month to go grocery shopping, hopefully Hwy 80 will be open and they'll get more stock on the shelves by then.
I'm taking an educated guess that nothing like this has ever occurred in the history of commercial aviation. The 911 attacks definitely hurt the industry/economy but not on a grand scale such as this. However I'm not a professional; rather I'm an aviation enthusiast and have been a great deal of my life. As a professional aviator Your valuable input has taught me a lot.
You mentioned the 757 being your favorite. I don't think you're the only one. Why doesn't Boeing abandon the 737max and build a new 757-like replacement for the 737? New fuselage cross section and 757-like flight deck. Make the fuselage wider than the 707-727-737 fuselage design. Just wide enough so that 3 and 3 across seating will be by seats that are 3 inches wider for improved passenger comfort, without costing significantly more in fuel usage. Maybe call it the 808, and begin a new series. Give them longer main gear struts so engine nacelles won't have to be flattened.
A word of encouragement. I believe that the airlines will remain the link between American cities and worldwide and that you will be OK. We are biting our nails on the other side of the fence. G-d bless you and family.
Thanks for the explanation. Let’s all hope for a return to normalcy soon. Sorry about your mast. I think there should be a number of replacements around underneath rotten boats.
You need some good at felling trees to get rid of that tree. Ropes and comealongs on it before cutting. I recently watched a TH-cam video of cutting down a rotting tree. Nice cuts, but the rotted trunk shattered and the tree didn't fall as planned. Good luck with this furlough. Hopefully it works for you.
I'm being optimistic but do any of your insurances cover your mast? House damage maybe? Decent 22's going for $2-3k so there must be some scruffy ones out there hiding at a marina that can supply a mast. Catalina Boats site not very forthcoming.
Choirs, Choices, but you belong in the RT SEAT Of YOUR craft, but what a sudden disaster , nobody saw coming , MY O MY STAY SAFE & WELL, UP THERE Od BLESS YOU ALL THERE. CEERS FRO NJ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
At least something good may come out of being on a medical leave Jaun. Already being on leave is a built in protection and once reinstated you just might move from 1st officer to the Captains seat.
@@blancolirio Juan explained that a while back. Move seats and you start back on the bottom of the seniority list for that rating. There goes your family time for not a whole lot more money
@@easternwoods4378 I've known lots of First Officers who stayed on wide bodies even after they could hold Captain on a 737/A320 because they didn't want to commute to reserve. The pay raise wasn't that significant. My best friend did that at AA, he stayed A330 F/O when he could have held A320 Captain but at the bottom of the list on perpetual reserve.
I got an early retirement offer at your current age. After looking at what all they offered. I could not sign on the dotted line fast enough. One of the best things I did in my life. It has now been 15 years and I have enjoyed every minute of retirement.
Wish I could have!!
Well I kinda did, just not from a union!
@Rick Anderson: Congrats! I retired early after getting a buyout during the 9/11 dip. (Survived by becoming a gig worker, before there was a real "gig.") I'm still doing online gigs from home - best job ever, when u never have to leave your SOHO. But without Social Security, I'd be destitute. My major corp. pension did not work out as planned. Don't believe the lies that Fund Mgrs. will tell you early in your career, u will need to pack away more than u think that you will ever need, just to get what is projected early on. I didn't know that, and was just shocked by the result.
Without getting overly specific could you share the range of the buyout?
Heck yes...good for you!!!!
I am a 70-year old retired airline pilot and I STILL remember being a kid following a proper snow-storm. In my case it was not a paltry foot-and-a-half of vertical wet snow, we're talking a 3-day 40-knot blizzard where the snowfall is HORIZONTAL! What a fabulous time - without any regard for grown-up worries like disrupted communications and transportation. A prolonged electrical power outage was an adventure, not a problem. We are, right now, experiencing a 3-day, 40 knot blizzard in my Nordic country, with NO power outages (hardened power grid, no overhead lines), actually a boon in these virus-infected times. We are quite used to temporary isolation, no problem there.
The aviation industry is probably the flakiest of them all. I got my first job in 1977 and finished in 2015, and I have seen it all. I would not recommend this career to anyone today! The best part of my life is right now, flying ultralights and special-performance aircraft for my own enjoyment while I can still pass my medical. Good riddance to bad rubbish...
Getting caught in a storm like you described is on my bucket list of things to do. I'll settle for 25 knot winds though. :-)
Open ultralights in Iceland must be cold as hell.
Poetic picture of a carefree childhood in Winter Wonderland! You should take up writing!
@@rztrzt, open ultralights are rather rare in Iceland. Ultralight flying in winter is actually almost non-existing, but NOT due to the cold (-10°C or colder is rare and short-lived, usually with low humidity). The short days are the cause of the hibernation (Reykjavík is at 64°N, I now live in Ísafjordur at 66°N). To compensate, we have long summer days - the longest day here is almost 3 months!
Are you married? Just asking?
Thanks Juan - great analysis as usual. Agree, good time to be out on medical with all the uncertainties. Glad you’re through it and back to the line soon. Beautiful images of the snow at your place.
Hi Juan, thanks for the most up-to-date news on the airlines. Sad but reality. Thanks for your sober, accurate and timely updating. - Dean from Minnesota P.A. Great to see the snow -- 15 inches -- nice!
Who doesn't love the 57. The sports car of airliners. Keep up the great work keeping us in the loop.
I love seeing all that snow at your house because here at my house, about 10 miles away, it's been a nice rain for the past few days! No power outage! There's no need to shovel rain! lol! I enjoy every one of your reports!
Thanks for the update. It’s same here in Europe. For example Norwegian is cancelling 85% of flights, Finnair 90%. And furloughs are underway.
Juan many thanks for this timely update video. P.S. Nice snow!
I'm a dispatcher for a major Canadian airline and I'm also immune compromised. It's a pretty scary time up here. Hoping for the best for us and for the whole industry.
Make a mast out of the oak tree. That'll teach it.
Really appreciate your vlogs.. Very informative and entertaining.
Even for us wrenches on the ground
Stay safe
Company: "Check out our "Golden Handshake" early retirement offer!"
Loyal employee: "I'm no quitter, I'll stick it out!"
Company 6 months later: "Your services are no longer required."
Loyal employee: "How about the Golden Handshake?"
Company: "Sorry, no longer available."
This is why employees are no longer Loyal Employees. The big companies have become disloyal as of 20 years ago and now they will pay for it in many ways. Non loyal employees are worthless to almost every employer out there.
Saw that at Lockheed when they decided that they were to good for Burbank all those years ago. Still rubs me the wrong way.
My aunt was "retired" on five minutes notice.
@@martharetallick204 Sad however, think of those who get nothing when they are "retired" or laid off.
@@Garth2011 - I don't know how much of a pension my aunt actually got from Diamond Shamrock. I do know that she sure as heck didn't stop working. Matter of fact, she was still working well past age 65.
Thanks for the update on this. Its good to listen to someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
As a retired United Airlines Ground service instructor I have been through the good and bad of the industry, back in 1998 when United was going good and the employee's held stock in United called ESOP and I desired to retire, well I owned about $60.000 in stock and I could either save it and hope it goes up or thank God cash it in . My wife and I decided to cash in and turn it into CD's (Thank God I did) right after that United claimed bankruptcy and if you had stock it was worthless. They also took our pension which was company paid and gave it to the PBCG which meant the government pays me my pension now. The only problem they have a max they pay out $3500 which screwed most of the pilots who retired at a much higher pay rate. So pray the Airlines hang in there and don't claim Bankruptcy. At my time the 401k just started and I wasn't in it. Your still young and I don't know your seniority but hope it's up there. In our Union every thing was based on seniority so we had typical offers like you were quoting. We did keep our travel benefits which were greatly modified and lost our company Life insurance. Try and get life insurance at 62 !Just hope that ugly word Bankruptcy don't jump into your picture. Good luck and pray your medical issue is resolved. I had a high PSA and had two biopsy's both negative but live with BPH ! 83 year old C-47 crew chief and they called us a flight engineer also because we flew with our plane 1954-1959
Wow look at all that snow, what a beautiful day in the mountains! Thank you for all your timely information we appreciate it.👍🏼🇺🇸
What happens if the airline goes out of business? Will these early retirement guys still get their 50 hours of pay until age 65? What about the PBGC ? So many questions. Keep up the good investigating reporting. You could always be a major network contributing reporter.
Juan, I love seeing that snow! Finally the drought maybe over for northern California. Hopefully your rolling blackouts are over for at least a year anyway. Love your take on aviation and life in general. Have a great month👍
Junior AA pilot here, very happy about this Loa’s, hopefully this will end soon. Be safe all!
Stay healthy and safe 🍀☘ snow is beautiful.
It’s times like these I’m glad I took early retirement. Kind of unheard of in corporate aviation but our flight department was downsizing and I was offered an excellent buyout deal.
As much as I miss flying every day, I’m not missing what I’d be going through right now. With all the airlines cutting back drastically I’d never be home, extra flights.
Stay safe out there.
Hey Captain, check the hull at the trailer load bearing points. That hit could have cracked the composite hull too. Good luck with the new mast. I've a mid-1970's vintage limited production trailer sailer and getting the right parts for that would be a real challenge. Lucky the Catalina is a popular boat.
Juan your channel is quickly becoming my favorite site for real news ..
Hopefully you'll not only be back online soon, but at a higher pay grade, which will be needed to effect repairs to the SS Blancolirio.
Juan,
Great reporting and insight on the airline industry - thank you! Sorry about your boat. Stay safe.
God bless
Paul (in MA)
Juan
As always very well presented and on a topic rather nearer to home for you!
The airlines made billion$ in profits over the last several years. Instead of re-investing in employees and equipment, they bought back shares, thus making money for the execs and rich investors.
Well before that the airline received a bail out in '08 did that money go in shareholder/executive's pockets it's been rumored. the airline industry will get another bail out this time around also, (I don't fly so I don't keep up with the general news of the airline industry unless it's unavoidable in the news) couple videos backs Juan talked about the planes need to stay in the air to make money I took that as the airlines are on thin ice to going broke. That's not the case as you stated their making profits, the airline industry should take advice I've been told keep 6 months worth of money in reserve for unforseen emergencies.
Hey Juan. Good Show, Love The Snow. Sorry about Your Boat. My Dad had a Sailfish, Sunfish? We’d Strap it on top of the 1967 Ford Wagon & Go Camping every summer. One time, Wind came up & boat turned over on the lake. My Mom wasn’t Very Happy when the got back. Ehhh eh. Love the Back porch?! Hopefully Mentour Pilot Came By For a Visit. I gave you a shoutout. He’s having a Livestream Tomorrow. Keep Circling The Wagons!!! CJ
Might want to warm up the snow shovel. Your deck looks as if it could stand a little relief. Thanks for your input during these times.
A bent mast, how sad. I learned to sail on a Cat 22, navigating the Detroit River up to Lake St. Clair. Joe, a former Navy Corpsman to Marines, my best friend took pitty on me, a Marine rifleman, in sharing his passion. I'd take him flying in return. Now we sail a Catalina 30, great for visiting the marinas of Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Keep the keel side down, hoping you're flying and sailing real soon.
Thanks for the update. You can try looking around the Santa Cruz harbor for a mast. There's a magazine for sailboats there - I think it's called "Harbor" magazine, not sure. Try doing a search. It has local classified ads for sailboats. I'm pretty sure they have good repair facilities there.
The tree doesn't look too hot, especially if it's losing branches. I just had to take down a mulberry for much the same reason. I didn't like it, but would like it even less if it fell on the house. Good luck to the airlines. Right now things look pretty precarious for all of us. In Santa Clara you are practically taking your life in your hands if you go for a quart of milk. Hopefully this, too, shall pass sooner than later.
Thank you for another informative video. A moment of sanity. Hope you get that mast replaces and there's no underlying damage.
This panic is out of control. The long term effect of this is going to hurt long after the virus is gone. The over reaction to the virus will cause more damage than tbe virus ever could. In my neck of the world they are forcing people to shut their business and to stop their livelyhood.
If you can't scare up a decent used mast (look carefully around fittings for galvanic corrosion), you should be able to buy a bare extrusion relatively cheaply enough. My first stop would be the Catalina class association if there is one, they'll have the leads for those things. The masts for these mass produced trailer sailers were usually based off a standard, off the shelf extrusion to keep costs down, so are usually still available.
With your A & P background, it'll be pretty straightforward for you to remove all the old mast hardware and rivet it all back on, with liberal applications of Duralac (which goes everywhere except where it's needed!).
Just inspect your rigging terminals (swages) to make sure they look decent, if they need replacing, a good used rig may make better financial sense.
I can see you smelling the 777 left seat !! 🤞🤞You deserve it.
Hey Juan! Love the snow. I'm in Boston and it's crazy here w stores and bars closed. Its nuts! Hope the kids are having fun!
Thanks for another look into the inner workings of the airline industry. As an outsider it appears that your industry recognizes the talent required to be a line pilot day after day. Probably because of the strength of your union. I’m guessing that for a guy like you, Juan, the financial issues are, of course, important, but I suspect the status of being grounded for a long period is very difficult, as well. Clearly “Aviating” is in your blood. My hope (beyond the wish for all to beat the c-virus) is that you will have your flight status restored because when I sit in the back, I want a crew that is not only competent, but absolutely has to fly to be happy. Clearly that describes you, Juan.
Don't buy a mast before you inspect the cabin top. The mast might survive a strike like that but that fiberglass may not.
"Pretty" easy to repair fibreglass back to basically all of its original strength though. Repairing an Alu mast is basically not an option, you cant just bend it back or go nuts and weld a lot in a mast, that would just not hold up. Sure, on a yacht this size, it could maybe work, the mast may well be a fair bit overdimensioned for the loads, but still, unless you can make a sleeve that fits perfectly inside the tube, I would not even consider repairing the mast :)
Fibreglass can be cut, sanded and laminated back to together, and on a normal cruisingyacht, it will be more than strong enough if done fairly correctly. It can be pretty labour intensive of course, and few things suck as much as sanding fibreglass (thats basically why I´m not a professional boatbuilder anymore).
Mr. Brown, love your vid's. Thank you for all your time involved. In a future video please discuss what large aircraft you enjoy to fly and why. Thank you again.
Love your videos, Juan. I watch and share them all on Facebook.
Mandatory retirement for us Air Traffic Controllers is 56. Strange how the FAA says Pilots have to go at 65.
Hey Juan! Hey, Look At All The Beautiful Snow!!! Time For Some Snow Shoveling! Nice! Thnx, CJ
Bent mast? That's called "rake" for improved upwind performance.
Wrong, that mast is BENT. BENDING a mast has nothing to do with rake, rake is the angle of the mast aft of center, pre-bent spars are illegal in most classes, and Catalina 22 does not allow pre-bent spars. Bending the mast through the back stay alters the shape of the mainsail, typically flattening it for better performance in high winds.
@@LoosMoose I doubt it, those trailer sailors have masts like wet noodles. Remember the mass profile is asymmetric if it rotates off the long axis it's going to bend super easy and come right back.
I wish Boeing didn't scrap the 75. It seems the B757 would have been a great platform to strap on the new big efficient high-bypass engines, especially with the tall LG. I think that would have made a great competitor with the a321neo. But I'm no expert.
Loved this video! Especially your comment about the 757 being your favorite bird. I look forward to hearing your comments about that.
That tree needs to come down. Mistletoe is a give away to rotten tree. Cut it down this spring, before it falls on the house.
Pat McGraw or wait till after Christmas and decorate it.😀
I was downsized out of the telecommunications sector on an early retirement in 2001, best thing ever. I was worried about it but really you live to a level that you can afford and as long as you did not get too used to living high off the hog all is well with the world. I hope that most of the folks affected by this have as good an experience as I did. That's Juan way of looking at it anyway.
Juan - Just last year we were told by some aviation analysts at UTC that this was the golden age of commercial air travel. Full flights most of the time, for an extended period of years. How can they have failed to save some funds for a downturn?
@Kyros - for the last 5 years or so flights have been packed. That golden age phrase was used by an analyst during an annual report on what to expect - and it was all about continued growth.
stock buybacks...
@@blancolirio and cut throat competition to keep prices down
Doug Hardy they had to give it to shareholders to create more demand for the stock rather than save for rainy days. I hope this changes -the greed- as we move forward.
@@gregorykusiak5424 Greed is endemic in human beings and it ain't changing. Not ever!
Hard times. The largest airline in my country (Finland) cuts 90% of capacity. Only a few major routes continue to operate.
Sad times bro..sad times
So much of this screams “medical insurance slavery obligations”... It’s sad that the political outlook in USA is to continue to force citizens to be tied to their jobs or risk losing their personal and family medical insurances. And they’re trying to get this happening in the UK where I am. We have an NHS and all emergency treatment is free at the point of need. Corporate Lobbyists are trying to pressurise politicians and MPs to continue privatising our NHS and eventually force UK public into medical insurance schemes. These will undoubtedly put commercial liens against our houses and assets, and when the sick person dies, the insurance firms come knocking for the debts to be cleared. Any Inheritence that the kids were due, gets snatched back. Why? Because it’s all down to home ownership and taking out mortgages with banks. If you borrow $100,000 for example, the bank don’t lend a penny, but generate fresh dollars as an “advanced credit” for you to buy the house. Then shortly after the transaction is complete, the bank securitises the signed paperwork that you penned and that is tied to your physical house, and they sell it to Hedgefunds and property speculators for 25x the borrowed amount (the bank makes $2.5m off your $100,000 contract) via AAA Portfolios.
This is all factual. Not fiction. But the majority of the public don’t know. They think the bank lends them money from the bank’s own reserves. Nope. Not even close.
Nice to hear from you Juan, stay healthy.
happy saint patricks day from ireland we have had the wettest febuary on record would love some snow stay safe ryanair and aerlingus will ground all in 7 days
20 years ago I had to make a decision on who I wanted to work for. I'm thanking my lucky stars that I chose to work for a cargo company! I've been able to escape the airline drama so far.......So far:)
Great video as always. I have been downsized myself (As of next month). This is the first time I've ever lost a job. I've no idea how I will pay to keep my licence current and keep my 73 rating. Any advice from a seasoned airline pilot such as yourself would be greatly appreciated! Happy landings!
Juan, we had a bent mast on our sailboat and somehow the magicians at our local small machine shop straightened it. $60! Thank you for the video. Now, back to Fate is the hunter.
Straightening will probably work unless the are kinks in the mast.
It's not as strong as it used to be but it will work to a limit, now below the engineered spec.
As we say at work, “the feces is hitting the oscillating air-circulation device”
Read today that Airlines are using empty passenger jets to ease the cargo crunch due to reduced passenger flights.
You're not the most sophisticated youtuber but damn your content and explanations are amazing!!! Great job
Another great report from snowbound headquarters. Hope it will all work out in your favor and we all get back in the air soon. Pilots and passengers....
Over twenty years ago my dad was a senior medical officer for a major airline that decided to outsource their medical department. He could see the writing on the wall - they didn't SAY they were outsourcing, but he could tell they were - and they offered early retirement which included 2 years of pay AND work-flight-privileges for life. My dad grabbed it, and was still getting paid when what was left of the medical team, including his boss (the chief medical officer of the airline, or whatever they called him), got let go with a much worse deal. My dad is in his 90's, and still flying all over the world for next to nothing, although not at the moment... Good luck, Juan - I hope you can figure out which way to jump, and stick the landing as well as my dad did.
Looks like you have some good firewood! Thanks for the update Juan.
Jay Leno always has had 2 jobs and he lives off of the least paying. Sounds like pretty good advice these days. I'm glad you got a ton of snow!
Sorry about your boat, and what’s going on in the world because of this virus. Thanks for all of your videos!
3 years of health coverage at company rates ...... that’s a deal!
A Tangerine: Horribly wrong! Took a package when I was offered
one a while back.The company private insurance was MUCH
better and cheaper than my current BS medicare. Covered MUCH
more and far easier to deal with than Government...............
We need to get you a gig as a TV aviation Expert....
Wow sorry bout your boat🙀Fantastic explanation Good luck with everything!🙏👏🏻💪👍 hang tough Captain🤜🤛
Retired AA pilot, check airman and APD and Flight Attendant ! Life in the Airlines has changed so much! May God Bless You All.🥰😇🙏🏼♥️ We lived through 911, it was tough, but we survived. 😇 My husband was the Captain 39 years and I was the F/A who flew for 32 years who is writing this. All the best on your decisions! May God bless all 😇🙏🏼😘!
Whew! Glad your roof/structure wasn’t taken out by that portion of the old oak that fell. Sorry about the “yacht” mast! Might need to build or buy a ready-made structure to protect your stuff. Here in West Tennessee, We’re still reeling from a rogue wind event from back in October that took out many trees and roofs and collapsed our sunporch. Poor Middle Tennessee still deals with death and destruction of two EF-4s a couple weeks ago.
Hope your medical leave paperwork gets you back in the pilot seat quickly and from the sound of it, looks like you may be sliding over into that PIC seat and get that fourth gold bar on your epaulet. MOST importantly, that you continue to stay as well as possible and PSA numbers stay low!
Can’t think of a more deserving pilot than our own Juan Browne and family, live from the Blancolirio Global Headquarters!
The 57 is the best plane ever. Long live the Barbie Jet.
"Weightless" is a great choice from your background theme. Love it, even though it is an inanimate object. :)
Guessing this event will give $$$$ relief to Boeing's 737 MAX grounding. Boeing will be able to adjust the amount paid to customers impacted by the grounding.
Just badly needed rain. Didnt say it was "over."
I'm not sure. Ground crews, service personal, and everyone involved in the development are probably also affected by the measures to lower the probability of an infection.
Can't say for sure - Boeing has contractual agreements with airlines to deliver the max within a specified timeframe - I don't know if the corona virus provides Boeing with a way out of paying compensation - however there are two sides to every coin - the airlines are contracted to take deliveries and the last thing airlines need is capital expenditure and capacity at this time
Mr Brown's favorite aircraft is a 757 - good man - I can imagine that Mr Brown's view is probably based on the airframe and engine combination - looks like the RB 211 has also been complimented by Mr Brown
SpinFast, it costs a fortune to have planes sit on the ground and maintained, keep up permissions to use airports, many expenses. I expect some airlines will go bankrupt without government welfare, but how long before the peasants say enough corporate welfare?
Reminds me of our 24" snowfall north on you 300 miles last year. Fun at first, but 11 days w/o power got old fast. Hang in there.
Congratulations on your Retirement Juan!
Damn, you still have all that snow? We have none at all right now in West Michigan and only had a few inches of total accumulation this winter.
In the meantime, my flight school is going well.
Thank you Juan! Related topic, I saw a Wall Street Journal comment that airlines are in talks for $50 Billion in financial aid with the government. Times they be a changin.
Excellent presentation - very informative and...a bit shocking! The ripple-effect of this pandemic could be much wider than we think in other areas, too!
Great hat, Juan!!! Thanks for the news! Sorry about the mast, trust she was insured...
They just released the info for the flight attendants and they are going to give them the shaft unlike the deal they gave to the pilots that can afford to retire. No cash no early out nothing even close to comparable to the pilot deal. What they are going to do is wait and find that none of them take the deal because its cheaper to lay them off.
Thanks for the updates, Juan
With a small percentage of airline employees being pilots what is in store for the rest?
I hope you and your’s are doing alright Juan. Happy (almost) Easter.
Or some quick thinking people sees an opportunity to take out senior pay and half it. Then getting, already in the pipeline cheaper pilots, X3 per half of the senior, in the seat to meet requirement when the situation resolves. Cost reduction, aircraft good to fly.
I need one of those hats....
Scala!-thrift store find....
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@@blancolirio -Same here.. :)
Got one!
@@reddog-ex4dx Me three!
I keep hearing about grounded aircraft and travel bans to and from certain countries. But as I watch my ads-b scope I don't see much slowdown of air traffic. I see plenty of airliners coming in from and going out to Canada, China, Korea, France, UA Emirates (Arabia), etc. And absolutely no slow down of Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and SkyWest Airlines flights. --- This snow is effecting us down here in the valley too. I was going to go to town today for my regular bi-weekly grocery trip. Phoned ahead, since it's 15 miles to town I didn't want to just run in there to find empty shelves. Because all the idiots are panic buying, the store shelves are bare. And because Highway 80 is closed due to snow, no new shipments will be coming in till the highway is open again. I'm fine here, I always have at least a couple months of supplies on hand. The city folk who "have to" go to the store every day, or multiple times a day, are in a bad way though (but at least they all have a 2 year supply of toilet paper. :> I'll just wait till next month to go grocery shopping, hopefully Hwy 80 will be open and they'll get more stock on the shelves by then.
I'll bet some of those are "ghost flights" The planes fly empty just to maintain the landing slot.
@@easternwoods4378: That is possible. Passenger count isn't information I can get from their transponder.
Thanks for the insight. Makes me appreciate flying aerial surveys, over flying the line.
I'm taking an educated guess that nothing like this has ever occurred in the history of commercial aviation. The 911 attacks definitely hurt the industry/economy but not on a grand scale such as this. However I'm not a professional; rather I'm an aviation enthusiast and have been a great deal of my life. As a professional aviator Your valuable input has taught me a lot.
You mentioned the 757 being your favorite. I don't think you're the only one. Why doesn't Boeing abandon the 737max and build a new 757-like replacement for the 737? New fuselage cross section and 757-like flight deck. Make the fuselage wider than the 707-727-737 fuselage design. Just wide enough so that 3 and 3 across seating will be by seats that are 3 inches wider for improved passenger comfort, without costing significantly more in fuel usage. Maybe call it the 808, and begin a new series. Give them longer main gear struts so engine nacelles won't have to be flattened.
A word of encouragement. I believe that the airlines will remain the link between American cities and worldwide and that you will be OK. We are biting our nails on the other side of the fence. G-d bless you and family.
Thanks for the explanation. Let’s all hope for a return to normalcy soon. Sorry about your mast. I think there should be a number of replacements around underneath rotten boats.
You need some good at felling trees to get rid of that tree. Ropes and comealongs on it before cutting.
I recently watched a TH-cam video of cutting down a rotting tree. Nice cuts, but the rotted trunk shattered and the tree didn't fall as planned.
Good luck with this furlough. Hopefully it works for you.
I hope it’s just the mast! That looks like a heavy tree. We’d love to see a sailboat video sometime. Thanks for all you do.
In South Jersey this was our first snowless winter. Ice skating has been gone for years.
Excellent reporting. Thanks
I'm being optimistic but do any of your insurances cover your mast? House damage maybe? Decent 22's going for $2-3k so there must be some scruffy ones out there hiding at a marina that can supply a mast. Catalina Boats site not very forthcoming.
thank you Juan
Choirs, Choices, but you belong in the RT SEAT Of YOUR craft, but what a sudden disaster , nobody saw coming , MY O MY STAY SAFE & WELL, UP THERE Od BLESS YOU ALL THERE.
CEERS FRO NJ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Oh so that’s why their stock was up 11% even though the Dow crashed 13% (2997 points). I was wondering.
At least something good may come out of being on a medical leave Jaun. Already being on leave is a built in protection and once reinstated you just might move from 1st officer to the Captains seat.
...and allowed me family time, and time to build this channel up...
@@blancolirio that too
@@blancolirio Juan explained that a while back. Move seats and you start back on the bottom of the seniority list for that rating. There goes your family time for not a whole lot more money
@@easternwoods4378 I've known lots of First Officers who stayed on wide bodies even after they could hold Captain on a 737/A320 because they didn't want to commute to reserve. The pay raise wasn't that significant. My best friend did that at AA, he stayed A330 F/O when he could have held A320 Captain but at the bottom of the list on perpetual reserve.
Pilots are OK. What about cabin and ground crew?
Thank for only referring to this as the “economic crisis.” Less fear = more rational thinking 👍🏼