Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
Depends on your definition of QOL. Being someone’s whipping boy was not for me. If my airline wants me to come in on my day off I have 0 fear about saying no. If I don’t believe it’s safe to go, I have 0 fear about saying no.
I don’t have to go to six liquor stores to find diet cherry vanilla caffeine free Mexican Coke Zero for my super special client after flying a six leg day. I don’t have to wash out a plastic bucket with a hose in the woods after Sir Reginald’s caviar doesn’t agree with him.
I bid my schedule (which had given me Christmas and thanksgiving off the past two years!), fly the plane, help passengers when I can (of my own free will!) and go home. I can live wherever I want, and if I can’t make it to work due to issues outside my control I don’t get punished for it. I have an active safety program and can ASAP events without fear of reprisal. And I hit six figures.
At my 135 I worked Monday-Thursday, home every night, and made just over 100k. No flying on weekends or holidays, 6 paid sick leave days a year (with absolutely no repercussions if I used all of them).
There is not a single regional, anywhere, where you can have QOL like that.
We had CASS, zed benefits, ASAP, and all the other usual suspects.
There are great 135 companies there. They are not all crappy Caravan SIC jobs where you clean toilet bowls with your bare hands while loading a 400lbs elephant in the cargo compartment to get it overweight and out of W&B in a snowstorm.