Funny thing is absolutely no one asked your opinion. You found another “girl”.

Presently we have pilots leaving AA wholly owned and other regional carriers for Netjets. The AA wholly owned new hires are giving up the Airbus seat for a bizjet. Turns out commuting isn’t conducive to a solid family life, and that holds true for any airline, not just a regional.

Plain and simple, if you want to live in Billings, Albany, Providence, etc and fly for a 121 carrier, you will go to and from work on your own time and expense. If you want to fly professionally and not deal with non-reving, jumpseating and a two day off block between trips, you come to Netjets. There are plenty of times I’ve gotten on a 737 going to/from a trip and thought “I miss getting in the airplane and turning left”. Then I remember how much of my life I wasted commuting in the day before a trip, buying my own hotel, staying in a crash pad, busting my hump to make a 15 minute turn off my last flight to catch my last commute chance and said to myself, “nah. Cleaning the lav is way better than dealing with that sh—“. Same when I see my W-2 and think “I’d have made $70K more at <insert airline here>”. Then it’s “I spent $70k this year to spend extra time I would have used commuting with my teenaged kid, on my boat, fiddling with cars or just generally sitting on my rear end not stressing about how I’m going to get to work when all the flights on Monday are oversold, the weather sucks and there are three other guys already listed for the jumpseat”.


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