Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
Partly, yes. I heard their spiel back in the day, they said something along the lines of "you won't be making bank", but they seem to dance around the fact that it's well below the poverty line, the $13,000/yr part, and so on. They like to use vague ways to describe what you are talking about, like the hard work, the training, the pay, without being very specific. I'd say most people applying to regional airlines do not know what they are getting themselves into, Lakes is no different, and yes the recruiters do say a few things about "it's not great pay, but experience, blah blah blah", and that might be excusable if we were taking 40K/yr, but we aren't, we're talking less than McDonalds.
I don't think every pilot is looking for a CRJ or 777 job, I think they are looking for fair compensation. It's not SJS when they pass up Lakes for something with a livable wage, that's just survival.
Why is this the airlines responsibility to make sure YOU know what you're getting yourself into? And why is it the airlines responsibility to make sure you know how hard you're going to work and how hard training is? Every airline out there is going to sugar coat things and tell you what you want to hear. How about YOU, as a potential applicant, (and be clear I do not specifically mean you - I know you're content on your RJ - just speaking in generalities) act like an adult/professional and do your own homework and not rely on others to do your research for you? Nor should you be disappointed/angry with an airline when you couldn't cut it - how is that anyone's fault but your own? I dunno, maybe I'm crazy, but both airlines I've been to I have done my homework before applying = very few surprises (Lakes included).
Hey, just my .02..