LMAO at your statement above to the man “That is as far as your career will go in this Industry.” Ok, sure. That’s not a bad position to be in. One can have a great career at Allegiant! HOME EVERY NIGHT as well as Captains earning $200K -$250K/yr take home. Do research. A lot has changed, in pay industry wide. Allegiant pays much higher than Spirit or Frontier “right now”, and that should/will change in a couple months once our ALPA brothers/Sisters at Frontier & Spirit get the Airbus parity raises they deserve. They will match or exceed industry standard.

Better than waiting 15 years for a flow to AA. Ok fine, better than waiting 9 years as a NH for a metered to minimum no interview lazy “FLOW” . We need to step out of the Group Think phenomenon. This industry is changing so fast. More promising careers possible beyond AA/DL/UPS/FedEX/SW ranks. Get out of the regionals, apply to Allegiant-JetBlue-Spirit-Frontier If you have 2yrs to 3+ yrs until no interview “flowing”, are flexible, and can live in other bases. Get your Apps out! Large growth plan & 100+ new aircraft orders (recently announced for Frontier) for example. They are far from a lateral move. It’s upward mobility. Granted they are all Airbus operators, consolidation is possible amongst the 4 carriers.

I don’t need wide-body pay. $250K/yr with good seniority and home every night lots of days off sounds like a great career to me. IIRC:
AirTran—-> Southwest. VirginAmerica—-> Alaska.

Allegiant and LLC/ULLC may be subpar careers to you. Truth is, any of them is better than a Regional Airline (SKYWEST, 5 WOs, TSA Holdings), any of them offers a great career now, or at-least will be, thanks to consolidation and business model changes at 121 Mainline, Cargo, LLC, ULLC operators.