You make it sound like it's a small business with the boss standing there breathing over people's shoulders.

In the end, these places are like ATMs. People go there, do their job and then they go home.

There's no Bill Lumberg a few cubicles down to impress. There's no politics.

Show up, fly the thing safely within FARs and FOM, and go home. The paychecks from all the regionals arrive on time. That is really what it is for, because none of them are predictable enough to be for anything other than that.

This section of the industry is entering a full blown crisis if you haven't noticed. In fact it's already well underway.

An opportunity for a 12-14 month upgrade is rare and the person that this thread was about apparently has a new hire spot locked in.

Like him or not, Hulas has things set up quite well in the next few years compared to SKYW. It may be a house of cards, but not any more than anywhere else. So why not go to the one that offers incredibly rapid advancement?