Originally Posted by
Ultralight
I was waiting for you to chime in and defend your precious Compass. Its a regional that pays dog crap and promises flows just like the rest of them.
Um, hate to break it to you but most of the current list IS going to flow to Delta, hence the movement, hence the reason they have a flood of applicants (well, that and the engines are under the wings
) New hires get a guaranteed interview at some point in the future. While the value of that is debatable it is also true that there are well qualified people that can't even get that.
have plenty of 121 & 135 experience and would never send my app to a place that doesn't pay for accommodation during training, then offers $25 an hour. Someone with prior 121 experience deserves more than that don't you think?
Wait, didn't you also say that people have to pay their dues? I dare say that if you looked at the total compensation one would get from Compass over a 5-7 year period, assuming a less than three year upgrade due to the flows, one is going to come out far ahead of a lot of other regionals.
On a similar note, first year pay at UPS is $33. Would you refuse to go their on principal as well?
Back to "song man's" question. You may get hired at an airline that has a base where you live and you may be assigned that base, eventually. In reality you'll be commuting to sit reserve in a crash pad at a junior base like JFK or ORD and you will be poor and miserable for the foreseeable future.
Pretty sure if he goes to SkyWest on the Bro that he'll never see JFK or ORD. Shure, he'll be poor the first year, but their second year pay is decent.