Originally Posted by
newarkblows
They did that in the past because everyone was hiring and the competitive mins were relatively low ... they didn;t want to hire the more experienced guy because he would jump ship to the better airline asap. In the next wave when career airlines start hiring in large numbers; I don't think they will be worried about people jumping ship because of the relatively quick movement at those airlines and the fact that there is a HUGE pool of guys with 10000 plus hours with near perfect records. The competitive minimums will be quite high and 5000 Tsic or 1000 pic isn;t going to get you the job at any highly competitive airline unless you are extremely lucky.
I am not talking down to people btw. I am in the same boat and will be one of the guys well under the competitive minimums for where i want to go. I was more trying to explain to that poster why i think ****ing away your early 20's is a huge mistake. He could be somewhat happy while he builds his time but he is instead under the impression that he will be out the door at 1000 TPIC.
There are many airlines today that are selectively hiring people with less than 6k hours for a reason and ignoring the large pool of 10k hour pilots, they also tend to be the top paying airlines in the industry right now.
Also, please learn some proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation.
Getting that 1000TPIC after 2-3 years at lakes and then going to Jet Blue, Virgin, Spirit, Frontier, etc for another year or two will get someone's foot in the door at a major much faster than going to SKW for 5 years and sitting in the right seat for all of it. Probably will result in better paychecks, work rules, and QOL too.
Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
Then why should major airlines pay more than $40K a year for their captains?
Gotta have some sort of carrot to keep the cheap labor rolling in at the bottom.