For those you of you guys out there like me, at a current regional thinking of going there to get a captain upgrade let me atleast tell you both sides of the story.

Back in late 2007 and early 2008 they were hiring street hire captains left and right, they got there type flew there butts off and left to a major fairly quickly seeing as they already had 3000 hours of turbo fan time. .

Some were lucky enough to go to CaL
Some went to spirt , northwest , Alligient , etc

It was an easy deal . Worked out well for some.

Now for some of the late gamers that showed up for street hire captains sure they got hired got thier ATP and type but never given the left seat, by then things slowed down. And they were made FO "s , they gave up their better paying jet regional jobs to fly a right seat 1 st year pay 1900, and getting squashed to the bottom of the list seeing as they are super junior .

So be very careful of those thinking this is the right move. I am not saying don't do it , I am just saying be careful.

I know some great guys that left pinnacle and eagle to get this and they ended up getting screwed.

My two cents