Originally Posted by
FlynDive
Thanks Acient... good insight. Nothing disqualifying. No failures, skeletons, etc.
The "quick" upgrade was/is one of the big "pro" factors... especially re ORD. Quicker recovery of wage/benefits.
A "quick" upgrade in a domicile relatively close to home makes a difference in QOL factor.
If you got on property today, you'd probably upgrade in 3.5 years... New contact should be rolling in by that time... I bet a 4 year captain would be around $160-170/hr especially with everyone getting contracts in front of us... This whole industry is a gamble... Frontier might be a premier job in 5 years... I laughed as I typed that out but stranger things have happened... I keep saying this but every airline in the history of airlines has sucked bad at some point