Make it 4 lazy opinions.

I am a FO that has been at L-XJT for 9 years. I have a good QOL and I am in the top 50 in the base for IAH. I make $44 an hour.

I am also a mentor for our new hires and one of the biggest things I hear about is the new hires wishing they had made another choice. It seems our recruiting dept makes it sound all rosy when they apply and they lie about 4 year upgrades and we have some great pay. They fail to mention that the pay is for fo's only. At other airlines, they would be on CA pay in a very short time, if not immediately. We are now approaching the 10 year mark for upgrades. There is no way around that number because it takes months to put someone thru the upgrade class and we don't have any planned. When we hit April, it will be 10 year upgrades at XJT.

Our recruiters will also tell you that more FO's and CA's get hired from XJT than any other regional airline. They fail to mention that we also had more pilots than any other regional airline until Skywest moved our flying into their operation and out of ours. Percentage wise, when you have the most, you can lose the most. I would rather see the percentage of pilots taken from our airline compared to other regional airlines. I bet that number doesn't look as good when compared to a company that only has 100 on their pilot list instead of one that has over 2000.

We have a base in IAH that most new hires seem to want. It may be a very long time before anyone gets that base. Even when they are awarded IAH or ORD, there is a very good possibility they are going to be forced back to EWR or CLE when we close down our DFW operation. (yes we are still closing bases).

We still have over 50 planes to park this year on the L-XJT side alone. Less planes mean less pilots.

I will very openly tell everyone that I work with or those thinking about coming to XJT to go somewhere else.