Originally Posted by
sluminginpit
Loser thinking Skyhigh?
Please, so if you were the most senior guy at your regional (not me) making mid 80's, nice house, happy wife, kids in school with friends you would leave to make a better life at the majors in the future?
What you think is a good life others may not and vice versus. However you telling me I would be a loser to stay at a regional is bullheaded, stupid and just plain rude.
Would I like to go to the majors, sure I would I didnt start this to be a regional pilot! However there are only 3 airlines that make sense for me to IMPROVE my life.
This industry has lost all crediability, if I were at a regional making a good living without commuting I would think real hard about leaving, and I don't mean 30-40k, Captains make closer to 85k.
Skyhigh i'm happy you made the leap outside, it looks like your real happy and the better man for it.
You are right. It was a bit to strong to use the word "looser" and I am sorry. I should have used the term "passive".
My point is that we all sacrifice a huge amount to become airline pilots. To be satisfied with a mediocre return is foolish. If you are happy with 85K then why not 65K and so on. A few regionals are doing well currently but that does not mean that they will in a few years.
I worked for Horizon Air and had I stayed I would be earning around 60K after nearly ten years with the company. To a high school kid that is a lot of money. I have a stay at home wife and four sons. I am sure that we could make a go of it at that pay scale but as I mentioned before I could have earned that much as a long haul truck driver and saved myself the trouble of college and flight school expenses. Over time the pay will go up but it would never be able to compensate for the sacrifices it takes to get there.
The lifestyle sacrifises it takes to be a pilot demand much more than what is being offered. To simply accept the poor considtions is short sighted and does not help the industry.
SkyHigh