Originally Posted by
sweetholyjesus
If you have an aviation degree with 60 "aviation" credits or more, you will only need 1000 hours to get your ATP and join the regionals versus 1500. That's a lot of instructing you wont have to do....
You will also have a harder time getting to a legacy without some sort of 4 year bachelors degree..
4-6 months?
I recommend learning to fly at 16. Get your commercial and start building time as a CFI while you work your way through an online degree course. Get to a regional as fast as you can. In a few years you'll be a regional CA with a 4 year degree and little to no debt. And then you'll be a mainline FO in your 20's. If I could do it over, that is what I would do.