Originally Posted by
NovemberBravo
Many teachers and nurses can file for loan forgivness as public service workers. I feel pilots should be able to do the same with their college loans at least for the duration they work at a regional. Many Regional pilots make a little more than half of what starting nurses make and half of what teachers make in major cities.
I am a 9yr regional FO, and I have almost paid off all of mine. (45k down to about 6k now). Deal with it. Also, the forgiveness only applies to government loans, if you took out a Citi, Key, Sallie MAe, etc (which over half of mine were) you are SOL even if you are a teacher or nurse.