Originally Posted by Cruz5350

I spent 4 years at OO and can safely say that between the 175 and CRJ it’s two completely different airlines. I couldn’t stand the CRJ in the beginning and bailed to the 175 as soon as my seatlock was up, but my timing made all the difference. I never sat reserve in the 175 and moved up about 10% every month as the fleet expanded. My last year on it I was displaced from 3/4’s of my trips and with nothing to pick up I just sat at home and enjoyed my days off. That only amounted to about 55-60k a year and yes I wanted more but for the time being it worked. I knew my time was limited and upgrade was coming so I chose the CRJ for the ability to fly my butt off and move on with my career. When people say it will get better what they should really mean is when you leave... even at 50% in a junior base I never held more than 11-13 days off a month with 90+ hours of block unless I had standups mixed in. I realized very quickly that this wasn’t the place I wanted to spend anymore time at and flew as much as I could in the hopes that I could move on to mainline and luckily my tenure was realively short. If you put the time and effort in I believe everyone who wants to move on will but you’re going to earn every one of those hours in your logbook and every dollar you take home. PM if you have any questions I’m always willing to lend an ear or give my two cents on an issue.