Originally Posted by
gloopy
Hmmm. I'd say that would put me 60% toward making the jump. The key would be how sure is that street captain position? Is it based off of etherial growth like the Air Wisky DL deal that apparently didn't happen?
Can they even staff the growth they claim they have? What happens if they can't? Some regionals downgrade Captains they actually need…just because they don't have enough FO's to fly the schedule.
PIC time is great, and always better than not having any. Starting over always sucks though, and the regional industry is pretty brutal and inherently unstable. Force multiply that with zero seniorityand it becomes pretty risky. However the folks that left stable regionals early for Compass (and to a lesser extent a few others) easily "seniority jumped" (as some put it) the entire industry.
Tough call. You said Trans States? The pay you mentioned doesn't match with what APC says they pay, so its hard to say. If it was a stable regional with for sure growth, I'd lean toward going. If it was some wing and a prayer EAS 1900 operator, I'd stick it out where I was at.
Yeah TSA.
Trans States Airlines :: Career Opportunities Scroll down and its there. If you get hired in the Left Seat Direct Program, they start you at $43 and you can never go below that. The FO pay rate is a blended CA and FO rate for the year you are at. If you fly as FO you get that, and if you fly as CA you get CA obviously. If they didn't give me anything in writing, I'd definitely be very weary of it. And what happened to AWAC concerns me because this is the same thing. Awarded flying from majors, which could end up falling through. However nothing indicates that it will. I do also wonder what happens if they can't staff it? That would probably be very bad for me. One of the pilots I spoke to there told me that if this all works out, if I get in right away, that I'd be top 1/3 of the list in two years tops. Something I'll never be able to say for my current airline.
The question is to risk it and possibly make a winning bet or losing everything, or stay the slow and steady and safer course and wait longer to upgrade and enjoy QOL. I'm starting to think stay, but with our airline losing planes and an uncertain future and labor problems, staying is also a question mark.