Damn times have changed. My first year pay at Mesa was around $13,000 a few years later my first year pay at SkyWest was $15,000. This will be my first year since 2007 that I will make over $40,000 flying. Boy is my timing bad with the 65 rule stagnation and crappy fo pay. You guys are all lucky with your timing.
All I hear from new guys now is I'm going to upgrade in 2 years that is if I'm not at a major by then and when i do get there I'm going to have a 40 year career at mainline and be a wide body captain by the time I'm 35.
It really is a good time to be getting into the industry but it sure highlights how much suck I've had to go through and i had it easy compared to the guys that needed 4,000+ hours of freight time to get an interview in the early early days.
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