Originally Posted by
Window_Seat
Pinnacle has to hire inexperienced pilots because they can not attract others. People would not go to Pinnacle if their minimums were 1000/200 or whatever their website says. I am from MSP myself and moved to Chicago to work out of ORD for that reason... and am happy where I am for now. My suggestions, wait till you get 1000/100 then go where you want to go instead of starting over again. You have plenty of opportunities out of Chicago... and check out Republic or Skywest.
First of all, when I was in ground school, most of us had over 700 hours with around 500+ multi, a good number of them were over 1300. We did have a few with 300 or less, but they did fine in training and are now on the line. Besides, you act like Pinnacle is the only airline that does this. Yes, Pinnacle has it problems, second year pay as an FO, and screw scheduling, but what regional doesn't have problems, they are the regionals. The pilots and FA are a great group of people. The upgrade is 2 years or less depending on what you got hired with. It is a great place to earn flight time and move on with your aviation career. Unlike some places where the upgrade is 5 years plus, 4 years from now, I will be applying elsewhere with some good PIC time.