Originally Posted by
Stok1
If Orlando is your goal and you’re north of say 35 years old, you might stand a good chance of scoring an Airbus out of indoc. Although I hear the next class coming up will be all MD80s like the current one is, ouch. Come hear and maybe score a Bus type and sell it to JetBlue or Frontier, both have solid contracts and an MCO base. Spirit has a contract and at least an FLL base. All of these carriers can put you in Florida and generally have a pretty good east coast presence. If you didn't get MCO or FLL commuting is doable; I believe Frontier has a long call reserve provision in their contract. Something that will never happen at Allegiant.
If you come here now you will indeed be on the wrong side of this wave. Being perpetually junior and yanked all over florida by screw services, not being home almost every night. Could get worse, Allegiant is currently under certificate review by the FAA for obvious reasons. If they uncover criminally falsified stuff and other forms of malpractice, which is possible at G4 and the media keeps turning up the heat. Allegiant will be facing what happened to the training department a couple of years ago; it got shut down for a couple of months. That happens and you are new on property, look out below.
To add to that, we won't likely get a contract any time soon. We are too far apart from the company to reach an agreement. I'm 99.9% sure it will take a strike to get a contract. Since they recently TA'd low hanging fruit in negotiations, I expect the company can drag this process out for at least another year or two.
If you come here, get your free type and move on as fast as you can. I have serious reservations about the long term prospects of Allegiant.