Originally Posted by
guidoverduci
Can you provide anything on why they'd be better? Seeing how they pay for both pretty much sucks, what would motivate me to pick them over Skywest..… serious question.
FAT / SFO as junior base is pretty much the main selling point for me! Not to mention, I haven't heard anything bad about them and they seem to treat military guys good!
If you just want to stay on the west coast go to Skywest...
Now, Eagle it will be in a interesting position in the next six months. Why???
Flow thru will resume soon, and once AA starts hiring there are 824 pilots with preferential hiring. After those 824 goes, all the pilots hired before Oct 11, 2011 have also preferential hiring.
So, if they want to hire 2,500 in the next 5 years like they said last month, 1,250 of those pilots have to be from American Eagle. We have 3,100 pilots in our seniority list, so I guess that our upgrade time will go down quickly in the next 5 years. Also you have to consider those pilots that will leave to somewhere else in the next couple of years.
In my personal opinion, I just started my 3rd year at Eagle and I'm very happy here. I started around being #2900 in out seniority list, and right now I'm in the 2400ish. That's a lot of movement in 2 years, considering we've been in Ch 11 for one whole year.
First year sucks wherever regional you go.