Originally Posted by
rswitz
27 year old, married, no kids, moving to CHS next year, second year Skywest FO.
With Envoy offering 47k in signing bonus money by the end of IOE for people with 900 121 hours, its tempting to leave.
Out of CHS, my options are commute to ATL for CRJ CA at SkyWest.
Or go to Envoy and Commute to reserve probably in LGA.
I have some debt that I could pay off with that 47k so that's the main temptation.
What do you all recommend?
I'd say that currently 145 ORD appears at least just as likely, ymmv. ORD does not come with 3 months of positive space to work/unlimited commuter hotels.
Expect 2 years of reserve, give or take a few months. 145 people can chime in on flying/not flying on reserve. Reserve is 11 days off a month, 5 days on, 3 off with a 2 off in there somewhere. 4 commuter hotels. Preassigned 4 am reserve availability period on day one, you can request something else 10am-2pm central the day prior and find out whether you got it 4-4.20pm. Call in to confirm it 5pm-9pm central.
Need 2 flights at least an hour apart for your commuter policy.