Originally Posted by
Bzzt
As I've stated multiple times it doesn't matter where you "plan" to stay. The regionals will be the highest career we ever achieve in the airline industry. The "stepping stone" no longer exists. So by all means get your college degree, hell I would give you mine if I could. Your end result will be the same, applying for decades at majors only to never get called for an interview and end up retiring at whatever regional you worked for.
34000 Legacy/FDX/UPS pilots retire in the next 15 years.
There are currently 24000 pilots at the regionals and large fractionals.
If you're under 40 the only reason you don't move on is if you really don't want to (We all know the guys that complain about not getting hired but only apply to one airline and defiantly avoid job fairs or anything that will get them noticed).