Originally Posted by
drrhythm2
You are on the CRJ side of Expressjet? What base?
I'm just curious because my good friend's wife has nearly seven full years on the legacy ASA side in Atlanta and is barely over halfway up the FO seniority list.
I left the ERJ side after a year because I could no longer stomach the commute to EWR from Atlanta with no end in sight to the JCBA negotiations and no idea how many years of fences would exist after that, plus I was offered a part-time jet gig locally and with my instruction and other activities, make as much as many Captains at the regionals, and I'm home almost every night.
Frankly, I really enjoyed my year of flying an airliner and spending time with some neat people, but all of the crap that went with it was just too much to deal with long term.
Nice job on getting out. The bigger picture that management needs to see is that the right seat of an rj is ok in short doses but it will eventually scare off good pilots. People like you will find better jobs or better qol doing something else instead of put up with the constant drama of a regional. After 7 yrs in the right seat I really wish I would have gotten out of this industry for the downturn and came back to aviation in the coming year. I work on the side and could have made substantially more outside of this industry rather than continually telling myself that the upside to this career is right around the corner. Hindsight is 20-20 but I think that any play you make that pits you at home every night is going to be hard to regret in 10 yrs.