Originally Posted by
sidestep
All Arizona State grads come out with a CFII and most have/had over 1000 hrs before being hired. Perhaps you are confusing ASU with san juan college grads?
Mesa has literally hundreds who have made it a career. Low 100k (20 year scale!) may not be what you or I consider 'career' pay, but for them it is. Like you condescendingly say in your post - perspective is key (kids?).
man, slow down.. I wasn't trying to be condescending at all. I was simply saying that some "feeder" airlines back in 1997-2003 were hiring different types of guys than others. Mesa was in fact hiring FO's with 300-500 hours total time during those years. I have a few personal friends who went from ASU, to mesa 1900 FO, to captain and onto Continental, AirTran, etc etc.. That was the goal for most. I do understand, though, that a lot of guys stayed at Mesa.
On the other hand, some airlines set minimums for even FO's at 2-3 thousand hours...