Originally Posted by 744driver

Not at all...I think Jerry is spot on. Do yourselves a favor -- go back at least a year on this thread, get a tall glass of your favorite adult beverage (beer, coffee, or whatever), and start reading and taking notes. If the lifestyle, the flying, they abc, and xyz, all line up to what you want for the next few years and beyond (remember, you may NEVER make it to a legacy, LCC, or the likes of FDX, or UPS), then by all means apply and do your best to get on at Atlas.

It is a fun job (great group of pilot to hang with, amazing/crazy destinations and charters, etc etc), but in many cases a frustrating job (lack of support, still struggling to get a major airline CBA, etc), but ultimately a job. For a young guy in his thirties and early forties, it is still a flyover fix, not a full-stop landing.

Good luck.