Originally Posted by
dera
I'm too old and was too junior to ever have a meaningful career at AA, so it was never a goal for me. It works for younger guys, but if you get to AA in your mid 40s after the huge hiring wave, the numbers change significantly.
Getting hired today at Spirit would net me almost a million dollars more at retirement than waiting 6 more years for flow.
Not sure if 332/hr is "bottom end payrate". But you do you.
Yep, try to explain to people that upgrading at an ACMI or LCC in under two years is far superior than waiting 2 years to upgrade at Envoy, then 3-4 more years to flow, then 2-5 years as an AA FO before upgrading. You're potentially at 10 years of CA pay at the LCC-ACMI before they upgrade at AA. If you've only got 15-20 years left getting in the left seat sooner anyplace is probably a better choice than waiting to flow.