Originally Posted by
The Juice
Your outlook may not be as "rose colored" once you obtain employment from a regional airline. I remember my outlook before starting with my first airline, experience will change your views on the industry.
Get hired at a poor regional, work a year, and see how your attitude has changed. I started at a poor regional with the "plan" of getting my turbine time and getting out. I pretty much did that, however it is impossible to focus on "getting your time" while constantly being subjected to the tortures of what actually makes that airline a "poor" regional airline to begin with.
Do not doubt you one bit there. I have never worked for a bottom tier regional, but I am convinced they are the gritty equivalents of the bottom feeders I knew and loved in the trucking industry. There were always a bunch of companies in trucking that existed for and by exploitation of the abundance of unwitting entry level drivers. Same thing here, these companies scrape unwitting newbies off the floor and exploit them without conscience. You'll be on food stamps, literally. No problem- you signed up for it, so it must be ok to exploit you.