Originally Posted by
Tyrion
There are a couple people I've met similar to you who are sitting reserve here waiting for their Republic class date to come around. If you keep your nose clean and check the boxes, other places will pay you thousands more each year of your regional experience. You should be able to get hired by some major well before the flow pays off for you.
The best places have a backlog of hiring, the worst places can have you in class next week.
As long as you avoid Mesa, go where you want to live. Right now the cool kids are PSA, Expressjet, Republic, and Endeavor. I'd expect Piedmont will probably be one of the next companies to get a surprise new pay raise to help their staffing. Skywest is ok, and has advantages over Envoy. Others like Gojet and Air Whiskey could work for you, but they historically stay in the red headed step child category.
Piedmont won’t be a place to be for most people unless flow goes back to a true five years for new hires (vs the nine and a half it’s at now) to go along with the pay increases. Looking at the new PSA pay rates, the 50 seat aircraft rates are significantly less so a there’s going to have to be a supplement to make Piedmont attractive. The schedules and QOL certainly isn’t it.