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B727 right seat
Of these three regional airlines, Compass, ExpressJet, or Mesa, which is the fastest upgrade to Captain, pay, or QOL. Could some pilots who fly for these companies please give me their opinion of their employers. Thanks very much.
There are many factors which determine upgrade speed, and it may have nothing to do withe the "quality" of the regional.
Growth, stagnation, shrinkage...management has some control, but may be hampered by their own costs if the competition is growing or just has lower costs (ie bottom feeders). Expressjet is owned by SKW, Inc which tends to compete well but there's no guarantee when Inc wins a contract as to which subsidiary it would go to.
Major hiring...one would think this would affect all regionals equally but but compass for example has a lot of guys eligible for DAL flow-through so new hires could likely move faster.
Me personally I would probably go with CZ...not a horrible place to work (like mesa) and there's a very high chance of movement when DAL hires. Note that you will not get flow-through to DAL, that's only for the guys who were there when DAL merged with NWA.