Originally Posted by Jason605

I'm curious what I may have lost out on here. Is the pay scale shown on this site, accurate?

AFAIK, the pay scale is accurate.

Upgrade over 6 years or so?

The current most junior Capt. is about 4 years in seniority.


For the past 10 years I've been making over a 100k and was ready to take a cut to go somewhere long term

Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward.

, but I wouldn't be able to take a huge cut for more than 2 years unless it was someplace where I could keep contracting to make up the difference for those years. Just contracting, I'm in the 150's now, luckily.

Most airlines require you to clear any outside flying with them. I've known guys who have done it at another airline, but they were mostly military contractors who flew low hours doing tactical training. Their outside flight time never impacted their weekly, monthly or annual totals.

Thoughts from some of the Omni people for someone like me?