Originally Posted by
Varsity
And when you build all this time and still don't get called (like the other 18,000 who have applied) and you're stuck at a sh*t regional.. then what?
How do you get stuck at a sh*t regional? Never heard of the thirteenth amendment?
You can either USE the regional for your purposes or let them use you for theirs.
Rather work for Skywest? Get your 1000 TSIC and 1000 TSIC at wherever you can get it the fastest and THEN go work for OO.
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You haven’t lost a friggin thing. You got a type rating and a bonus from someone like TSA (currently advertising a $60k signing bonus), get your thousand hours, upgrade to captain with $68/hr year two pay, and once you have your magic 1000TPIC, THEN you can go to OO, pick up ANOTHER type rating, a $7500 bonus, and start work there as a Third Year FO at $55 an hour and work THERE until you get the call.
Or go to Republic and pick up a $17500 bonus (and another type rating) and start at year one.
You seriously think these regionals won’t pick you up if you have 2000 hrs of 121 time from TSA? You seriously think a type rating and 2000 hrs of 121 time, half of that PIC, is going to HURT you careerwise?
It isn’t gonna hurt you near as much as going somewhere that you spend a year on reserve and fly 250 hrs, that’s for sure.
The point is, DRIVE THE PROCESS, don’t be passive.