Originally Posted by
daOldMan
That is fine, if you want to waste a year of your useful flying life just waiting to fly at a regional.
Enjoy.
While you are doing that, everyone else will be passing you by.
All things being equal, that first year everyone else is either sitting in a crashpad on reserve, or sitting in line to upgrade in a couple of years at another regional. Outside of DEC hires at other regionals a new FO will upgrade quicker at PDT than the other 121 regionals regardless if they have a wait in training or not.