To OP. I also am thinking about joining Empire. I was former L-Eagle as well. As far as pay. Put it into comparison. First year at Omni air is $50k. Second year is $54000. At empire at least your logging Turbine PIC and getting paid the same roughly and (shoot me down for this comment) but your "home" every day.) Missoula's route looks great. Report to work at 6pm. Spend the night in Great Falls. Then back home at 7am. Anyways. Everyone's gna complain about pay. At Omni your gone for at least 1 week. Better than a regional and I see it better than a 767 charter IMO. But I don't work for Empire.