Originally Posted by
viper548
Pay at the regionals isn't great, but it's much better than it used to be. If you want to get to the majors ASAP, go to a regional. You'll check the 121 box and gain flight time quickly. Upgrade at the soonest opportunity with both the military and regional. Try and get to 3000TT as soon as you can to be competitive at the majors. Once you have that, try and upgrade to IP in the military, then you're just waiting for the phone to ring.
If you go to one of American's regionals, you have the guaranteed flow in your back pocket. You'd want Envoy to be able to stay away from the east coast.
The decision is pretty much between Horizon or Compass I think. There isn't a domicile that doesn't work for me with all of the options with both Regionals. The difficulty lies in maximizing my AF flying as a new guy and trying to pay the bills. I can work as much or as little as I want to get paid so I have a buffer, but that doesn't always mean flights. And paying the bills with either employer means time away from Family anyhow.
I feel like flow thru isn't even anything to worry about with military progression but I also don't want to sound cocky. I hear horror stories of someone taking 10 years to progress to a flow. With companies that do flows, I've heard of folks getting slammed for their mil leave in early years. I'm going to have to scour the boards to see if there is anything like that consistent with either RA. Mil leave will be the only buffer that allows this plan to work.
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