Originally Posted by
iFlyRC
You've been here long enough to have no excuse for not going to a LCC. Maybe you want 1000 121 tpic first, that should be 4 or 5 months away since you have a similiar hire date as me. You and I sticking around are also part of the problem. So if you lived in Dallas, you would actually go to Envoy or Express Jet? Envoys 2.5 and 6 is a complete lie, and Xjet has no upgrade in sight. People with 1000 121 hired today can still get an upgrade. Yes, others will have to wait much longer but it is still better than Xjet or Envoy.
Wrong again. This isn't a pilot shortage, it's a PAY shortage. The shortage is of people willing to make 22k /year pretax to fly a large jet. If you make more than 3x that as a captain, then you're not part of the problem. This isn't personal, it's economics. The company doesn't care if you don't like the pay/benefits offered or if they're fair. They only care about cd0/ccf.