Originally Posted by
TransWorld
MKUltra and Battlinbear21, I quite agree with you.
Someone who gets their 4 year college degree (need I say that again?), gets their hours, works at any of the regionals, volunteers, and keeps their nose clean can expect to be hired by a major by just before their 30th birthday. (Assuming no black swan event, like 9/11.)
Any of the six majors (American, Delta, United, Southwest, FedEx, and UPS) will afford a pilot a very nice upper middle class lifestyle and excellent assets for retirement.
With the mandatory retirement wave (which is going to last 20+ years), someone hiring on by age 30 can expect an upgrade to captain by their mid-40s or so. They will spend a couple of decades in the left seat, making excellent coin, and spending quite a few years with a choice of prime lines.
I am not a rah rah, I am just stating the facts.
Yea possibly even sooner. What's the upgrade time at delta on the 717 and 73 2 years? 6 right now at AA on the airways airbus. Probably gonna be 15 years to hold group 4 but 200 plus a hour is fine. Who really needs 300?
Agree w everything you said about education, volunteer work. Service in training,Saftey, recruitment. Get out of the swamp in less that 5.