No offense, but there are MANY, MANY posts very similar to this one.

RAH is upgrading very fast today (folks holding a training slot after only a year!) and Republic has bases in PHL/DCA with CHQ in LGA/BUF/GSO, but their pilot group is already upwards of 2000 pilots now so they'll have to have a bunch of attrition and continue their rapid growth for you to upgrade. Remember those E-Trade and T Rowe Price financial services commercials: "Past performance is not indicative of future results."

Don't believe in any preferential hiring or flowthrough to mainline BS...the most preferred thing is 1. knowing somebody where you ultimately want to be, and 2. PIC time. A college degree ranks right up there, too.

A new FO will likely sit reserve for a few months, with 4 on/2 off or 5 on/3 off kind of sequences. As a junior lineholder you'll get whatever you can hold...which will be whatever is left over (will depend on where you work and if most pilots commute there or not). Same can be said for a junior CA, but you'll likely spend more time on reserve than as an FO...especially these days.

AWAC, PSA, Pinnacle, ASA & Comair are represented by ALPA. Republic and Horizon are represented by Teamsters IBT747. Colgan has no union.

Reputation? Depends on who you ask and how you phrase the question.

Horizon is left coast only, and commuting from the NE to the NW would SUCK, especially commuting to reserve. If you want to work on the east coast (ORF/DCA/PHL) and make decent coin for flying a 50 seat jet AWAC is likely the best place for you. Upgrades are around 3 years, pilot group is excellent, company isn't going anywhere for at least 7 years as we own a piece of US Airways. Downside is we're not growing and the pilot group is getting more bitter (see the website in my signature line for more info).

Hope this helps some...