Originally Posted by
rcfd13
I could say the same thing from my perspective as a junior FO looking at you. I'm flying 6 leg locals or 4 days across weekends that pay 16 hours while you're probably holding 2 leg 700 locals with weekends off getting paid significantly more than me. The only difference between us is that you were hired before me.
You've been in my situation, one day I'll be in your situation, and every captain senior to you has probably been in both of our situations. The job is all what you make of it. If you're unhappy now you're never going to be happy.
I do not hold 700 locals with weekends off. Can only hold a few and they always fall on the weekend.
And a huge no, most of captains I fly with never sat reserve (85+%) and then upgraded anywhere from 1 to 2.5 years (and haven't sat reserve as a captain either). It's the reason reserve sucks here, most people haven't sat it. You can choose to have your head in the sand, but things are not looking up for SkyWest.
I know you like looking at the seniority list, tell me how long it takes to hold a line as a captain in any base other than MSP, IAH, ORD, COS (about a 1/3 of our pilots). Now compare that to line holding FOs in those bases, versus the smaller bases.
If you actually break down the seniority base by base, it's quite astounding how much trouble this company is truly in.
In regards to my happiness, I'm just fine. Have a great life and make a lot more money outside this job than at this job. When you realize how easy it is to make money not working for the man, it makes it harder to do this job (yes I should/could quit, but the travel benefits my parents enjoy and independent healthcare costs, it makes it hard to leave).