Originally Posted by
FlyyGuyy
Probably the dumbest excuse I have ever heard for deliberately going to the lowest paid carrier out there. Skywest, compass, envoy and republic also fly the ejet. Second there is no quantifiable days saying that the ejet magically makes you get hired elsewhere faster.
Which of these fly an Ejet out of Houston? Zero. Zip. Nada. Go with SW on the Ejet to sit on reserve in Chicago and take 3 years to upgrade to sit on reserve again. Unless you go with SW on the Ejet for a west coast base, then you sit on reserve in Chicago for months, to transfer to the West coast, to sit on reserve for many more months, to wait years to upgrade.
Pretty rare to get the Ejet on Envoy unless you are in your 50's. Republic doesn't just give you the Ejet either.
While I agree there is nothing magical about the Ejet getting you hired on with a major, there are pilots that want to fly it. Most majors simply want the 121 time and a decent internal reference.