Originally Posted by Apokleros

Simply put they will have to raise the offered compensation. $36k to be an SIC is not enough in today's market, and it is not enough to attract applicants who already have some jet time but no ATP certficate like me. Some of the regionals nowadays pay just as much as AirShare and upgrade time there can equal or be quicker than at EAS. If FO pay were bumped up to around $50k, I would reconsider, but anything less than that it isn't worth it with so many other opportunities at the regionals and 135 gigs like TMC opening their doors....

It sounds like maybe something that I would do just for a year to get jet time upon reaching 135 IFR minimums, then off to something bigger (kind of like my present 135 gig). The days where pilots are treated unfairly are gone or soon about to be long gone, thank heavens.