Originally Posted by SSMR13

Wow, you have to be getting some serious kickbacks from the company to be spreading this kind of misinformation. Average duty day is 8 hours? Average flight is 2.5 hours. Never loose any pay? Always get reassigned? Well, that one is actually correct, but under very different context. Line holders are getting reassigned left and right because of scheduling issues. Scheduling actually blamed me, along with the rest of the pilot group, for them having issues staffing airplanes and having to cancel flights. She said "if you pilots didn't call off all the time".

Anyways, there are a lot of 4-5 leg days, especially on first and last day of pairing. There are a ton of multiple multi hour sits in a single day along with those 3-5 legs. This had gotten a little better due to the union scheduling guys helping in fix problems with pairings; however, we were told this isn't happening anymore and the company is back to not giving two ****s. Your average flight is not 2.5 hours unless you are top 10% in base. It's more along the lines of 1:15 hours on average. Yes, you have nice long layovers if you're in an outstation base (CMH, IND, MCI, etc), but unless you live in those bases you can forget about commutability. This means you come in the day before, and go home the day after your trip. I'm based in PHL, so my trips are commutable, but average overnight is less than 12 hours, with many reduced rest overnights.

To the OP. I have no opinion as to which place is better, or worse, or will have a better future. But consider this. I came to Republic for two reasons. One, it had a base I wanted. Two, at the time I joined the pilot group was pretty happy here. Two was very important to me as I didn't want to find myself in a situation where I hate what I do because of the kind of company I work for. Well, I'm getting to that place pretty quickly. This company is terrible. And I am doing everything I can to move on from this place.

Good luck with any choice yo may make.