Originally Posted by
week
I respectfully disagree in this case.
The flow agreement completely blocks pilots from going to Frontier outside of the flow. This means from now on any compass guys who may want to “escape” somewhere respectable in the future have one less place to go.
By the time the ‘flow’ reaches anyone who’s currently an FO at this company, compass will (likely) be long gone. And when that axe falls, now we have one less place to go, especially us CAs that would have otherwise been competitive when applying.
I don’t know. The way I see it, I like F9 and was planning to try for them once I check my 1000 tpic box at compass. Now I can’t go to F9. That means I’m that much more likely to be in OO newhire class in 2021 if I can’t move on before then. Certainly looks bad from where I’m standing
That doesn’t even SORT OF make sense. If Compass went away, so would the alleged restriction to two a month.
You would then be no more or less competitive for a CJO from F9 in that event than you would have been had the flow restriction never existed. And as a captain with a lot of hours, and if you can’t block 85 a month all summer you aren’t trying very hard, you can get that ‘golden’ 1000 TPIC pretty quick, you would be highly competitive with them. Then you can leave.
Go to OO if you want, or better yet go somewhere that will give you a DEC bonus and put in your app from there. If you were truly competitive for F9 anyway, they’ll give you an offer by the time you are done with IOE, and you can take the upfront money and new type rating and run with it.
You and I have had this sort of a conversation before, week, and we just see things differently. You want a no risk pathway, h€||, we ALL want a no risk pathway, but that isn’t realistic.
Generally there is always a risk reward payoff, and I guess I’m a stock market sort of investor and you are a US Savings Bonds sort of guy. That’s OK, some people can’t handle volatility and some people can’t tell the difference between investing and gambling and sometimes through no fault of your own you get burned no matter what you do, as happened to a lot of people lost in the lost decade. And I know through no fault of your own you wound up the plug for an unfortunately long time.
But right now we have fair winds and favorable seas and we need to make the best of them. Glad you upgraded, now get those hours and get your apps in. If Frontier was your first choice and this slows you up, I’m sorry the fickle finger of fate screwed you again, but there are at least six perfectly acceptable targets of opportunity out there you can apply to. Good luck.