Originally Posted by
Magpuller
My list of best regional airlines for a new F/O:
Harvard School of Law
Virginia Tech School of Medicine
MIT
Cal-Tech
Stanford School of Business
Hell even ITT technical institutes are better "regional airlines."
Don't kill you love of flying by becoming an airline pilot. Take a different career path, one that makes you wealthy then buy and fly your own jet on vacations to the tropics...
This is a no-brainer man.
I love how people just assume it's all rainbows and unicorns outside of the aviation industry.
Mustang, living in BUF...I would try to find a regional that has LGA as a junior base. I haven't looked at the loads but it looks like there is at least 7 direct flights a day to LGA. I assume you're looking at the regionals as a way to make you app look better for the Legacy carriers...have you applied at Jetblue? Are you flying in the reserves? I would avoid a double commute at all costs and would reccomend living near your Guard base. You'll make more as a part time pilot in the Guard than your first year pay at a regional. So it's a massive pay cut from AD but still manageable for a while. With any luck you won't be at the regionals for very long. Goodluck!