Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Spending 10 years as an FO at a "good" QOL regional < 1 year as FO at a somewhat jankier place and a couple years as captain before moving on to a career carrier.
In the last 5 years what majors have been hiring people who have only spent a couple of years at the regionals? That used to be true but it just isn't true anymore. Now that the majors are hiring it won't matter if someone hired in 2005 upgraded in a year, or was hired in 2005 and took until 2013 to upgrade. Both of those pilots are still stuck at the regionals and both of those pilots have the PIC time.