Originally Posted by flapshalfspeed

It's worse to be at a regional that's stagnant and shrinking and full of 50-seaters, even they have a better contract and better payrates.

I've spent the majority of the last decade flying for two different regionals, and have good friends scattered around the industry, and the above sentence seems to be the consensus.

I'm sure Mesa will eventually reach a point where the projected near-term bump in seniority isn't worth the slightly reduced payrates vs. a stagnant, dying airline like Air Whiskey/Eagle (and we might be there already for new hires now for all I know), but you simply cannot compare payrates/contract terms at a stagnant airline to payrates/contract terms at one that is growing like crazy--it's a subjective determination based on when you were hired and where you live.

I'll be racking up CA pay for YEARS at Mesa while I would've otherwise been capped on 4th year FO pay at Endeavor (based in JFK) INDEFINITELY. I know this won't be true for everyone hired recently, but it's true for me and I do not regret coming here at all.