Originally Posted by Name User

Yeah people applying in 2010/2011/2012/even 2013 took a risk. As a Capt on an RJ guys were making above the topped out FOs at Airways and if you hustled, as much or more than their Airbus Capts (remember back then upgrade was over 25 years).

I remember talking to someone in the CLT shared crew room, they lived in Dallas and had turned down an offer from Airways in 2012(?). They "didn't want to commute their whole life". Ha.

I knew a few who left for Airways in 2008 or maybe 2007 and were furloughed even.

For anyone single or married with a wife who had a good job it was a good risk to take, but there were many sole breadwinners I flew with in the RJ that couldn't foreseeably take that Airways job. The pay was abysmal.