Originally Posted by
GogglesPisano
Does anyone remember the 1990's? Regionals wouldn't look at you unless you had 1500TT/250 Multi and then you had to fork over $10,000 to pay for your training.
Didn't have $10,000 for an $18,000/yr job? That's okay. Eagle would hire you without pay-for-training, but now you needed 2,000TT and 500 multi.
Kids these days.
And get off my lawn, too.
18k to start!?!? Damn, you got lucky! Some of the regionals started at 14–16k. And were based up in the Northeast, to boot! I remember a buddy of mine telling me how management at his outfit sent a memo to the pilots telling them not to buy food with food stamps while in uniform. Yea, the pay back in the day was awful.