Originally Posted by
ESQ702
I always thought the major benefit to Part 141 was if you have a chance for a R-ATP license. Otherwise, wouldn’t cheapest make the most sense for training (and you’d probably be doing Part 61 in that case)?
This thread is over ten years old...
When it was started, R-ATP did not exist nor did you need it because you could legally get an airline job with 200 hours (nobody really hired that low except mesa). The colgan crash which precipitated the 1500 requirement (and R-ATP exception) was still a couple months away.
Today...
Some of the best majors seem to give some preferential treatment for completion of a structured university flight program, in addition to the R-ATP allowance.
In the past the answer was part 61 unless you had a really good reason for 141 (such as VA bennies). Today it's not so clear-cut. You could make a case either way, and probably comes down to money (whether you have any). Probably not worth saddling your young self with crushing debt for decades just to get to a major a few months or 1-2 years sooner. But if you can afford it, getting to the majors sooner will pay off in the long run.