Originally Posted by
MidLife
If there were no regionals, then military and civilian pilots would not be differentiated at mainline. Everyone starts at the bottom of the seniority list and moves up by attrition above at the same rate.
The difference now is military can skip the regional proving grounds and can go direct mainline (at least I think they can - maybe I'm wrong)
I'm military and I'm here too. Enjoying it and leaning a lot.
What often gets left out of the "military goes straight to a legacy" discussion is that those military guys are accumulating 10-20 years experience flying there which is similar (and different) to guys spending 10-20 years at a regional. It's not like they go to pilot training and then just get suddenly hired at a legacy.
While I'm sure thousands of pages are filled regarding those differences, I'm not interested in whether one is better than the other. Both routes have years and years of experience and sacrifice.
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