Then there is this from Ray K ...
If you are lurking and trying to figure out how 2nd year will be, FFTF is using numbers that he actually experienced. Ray K looks good on paper, but nearly impossible to achieve in reality.
Have either of them been JUNIOR in ANC ? That is the assumption that Ray is basing his numbers on. To get to those high figures, you will have to live in ANC, with the associated costs and hassles that go with that. Then you will have to hold the most high paying senior lines (hmmm, how's that going to happen bidding 200/250). Many of your trips will then have to return to base a few days late to get the premium payments. And after that late arrival, you will have to pick up "moderate open time or JAs", on less days off. Once again, I have to wonder if either of these guys have ever been junior in ANC ?
Is it doable ? Maybe. But I don't think anyone junior that commutes to ANC in 2nd year will be able to, or want to spend that much time on the road. Or be that lucky with bidding.
Reality is closer to what FFTF has mentioned, I'd plan on that. Too many assumptions in the numbers Ray has mentioned. I was junior in ANC for years, it wasn't easy to get as much credit as Ray claims.
Either way, you have to get hired and make it through the first year
