Originally Posted by
CaptCoolHand
I think leashing yourself to any one airline with $100K+ of debt is a bad idea. Especially now in this hiring environment.
This generation of aviators won't ever know what the last 20 years was like. We can't expect them to understand what many of us went through with furloughs and poverty wages. Hopefully they'll never have to experience that. But it's our job to make sure they have some understanding of it. It's also our job when they come on line (like it or not) to make sure they make good decisions as professional aviators.
On the other hand, there is no contract to stay with JetBlue for these guys...so they aren't really leashed. Write the check for $125k, get 1500 hours the same way every other guy does, then go straight to the right seat at JetBlue. Basically it's a regional bypass. They probably won't upgrade as fast here as they would at a regional, but if this place stalls out after a year or two here, they can put their apps in just like the regional guys.