Originally Posted by phalanxo

uhh, now would be a bad time to go to horizon because weird stuff is happening, inky. he'll get seat locked now into the q, which is a shrinking fleet with no growth... it's.. yeah. it's not good times, sorry.
Compass you'll get SEA pretty fast, maybe out of training, but you would hold a line quicker in LA... sort of up to you, you can switch between the two and see what you like better. Reserve rules are OK but not amazing by any means. As for base closing... It is contractually obligated to stay open until June 2017 (bases have to be open at least 2 years). They have said nothing about closing it. That said, I have concerns re: the number of airplanes both us and Skywest will have when delta shifts some of it to the e190s, but they very well could use the e190s as they come online for 717 replacements and move those back to the east coast, which, it sounds like is the plan. They also are continuing to grow seattle, and as mainline takes over some of our routes we keep getting new stuff ie SEA-SNA starting up in May... who knows in this industry. The other benefit to Compass is 4 commuter hotels a month, and plenty of metal going between SEA-LAX to commute on (and with 2 extra flight attendant jumpseats and priority, I've never seen a compass pilot not make it on a CPZ flight.). If pay and benefits are what concern you, they're pretty decent at CPZ, not the best, not the worst by any means (first year pay is livable, at least, and knowing eventually you can upgrade and the pain is over is sure nice)