Originally Posted by
lakehouse
Eaglefly every regional is facing a future of term oil. Noone knows what the future holds for any. Everyone just needs to build their time and work on to better places. We offer a paycheck on par and average qol. The flow moves as it moves and is a nice back up plan. We get some more bases and match endevour and this would be a better selection to pay your dues if we have a base where you live.
The "turmoil" you describe is a far cry from life at the previous American Eagle. I guess many of you are simply used to it now, but from fresh eyes outside of it, the industry is far more awful then it used to be (intolerable IMO) and Envoy bears no resemblance to the Eagle of 5-8 years ago. None. Your points above do not guarantee stagnation and/or displacement even with another base. Envoy could really only have a chance at one more base, that being MIA and for those in DFW, getting displaced there would be a miserable existence commuting to RSV and likely would only exacerbate attrition from DFW locals who though they'd have a "cakewalk" because some promised them they would. The things Envoy needs to do to prevent contraction are unlikely to be realized as there are simply too many. Adding a base, raising pay and a multitude of other improvements are all massive changes that I don't see happening, at least not enough of them to bring in 35-40 pilots each and every month for the next 5-6 years for today's Bucketeer's to truly have the cakewalk some have promised.
Again, my point is that any pilot going anywhere should not be surprised if their assumptions don't pan out and things change. If there is one common thread running through the regional industry, especially now and MORE especially in the future, it will be "change" and they will have to learn to roll with those changes. The junior cadre on the E-175 in DFW is little different from the airline hopping pilots of 10 years ago who jumped ship for a street captain slot, only to be subsequently displaced to F/O after arriving at that airline months later (or even a year or so). The only difference is pilots are carrier-hopping for different reasons, that being not the seat, but the aircraft and/or domicile. The environment is the same and yet it's now on steroids as the industry goes deeper into the crisis, changes will happen faster, especially because the industry itself hasn't yet come to terms with how they themselves have caused it and appear to be kicking the can until the bill can no longer be delayed.