Originally Posted by
No Land 3
Mesa is an opportunity like anywhere else. Get your time and experience, and move on. No one gets "stuck." People decide to stay or pass up other opportunities thinking they will be better off. You are only going to settle for the "big five?" That's your decision, just remember that it used to be the "big eight" or what ever, and they had flight engineer positions to fill as well.
Fewer airlines to move into, with fewer positions available. In the past people had far more choices and thus more chance of moving into mainline.
Self reflection and a willingness to try something completely different to escape the regionals is well advised for those who want out of it.
Try going to a heart surgeon who makes 30K a year - but when he got into the medicine field, he expected to make at least 300K. Sure, he could change horses midstream and do something else. It's not what he spent the better part of his life training to do.
Our skills are worth a LOT more then what they pay us at the Regionals. It's people like you who justify this - that keep the rest of us down.
Maybe you should try something different? Then you wouldn't be in the way of the rest of us who are trying to make a living commensurate with our experience and education