Originally Posted by
frmrdashtrash
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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So NJA is better than regionals and Atlas? Congrats!
I think the funnier opinion is from people who have either never worked for a mainline 121 carrier, or when they did, the internet didn't exist. Everyone at NJA seems to spout this horrific idea of the airlines and how amazing NJA is yet the percentage of them that have worked for any good airline in recent times is literally zero. Why? Because nobody is willfully leaving a legacy 121 job to go to NJA unless they hit 65 and are forced out. I also remember the amount of retired airline types that actually stated after IOE and in 2017 when I left NJA it was about 50% of them.
NJASAP tracks attrition, you can easily check and see for your self. 5 YOS and under will be extremely high turnover, over 25% as long as the floodgates at the airlines are still open. No doubt the pay increases have helped at NJA but if somebody wants to go to the airlines, or go back to the airlines, they will go.
NJA didn't lower their minimums because they were getting too many high time applicants. NJA is catering to the same demographic of pilot that the regionals are. Also, don't take it so personally when somebody doesn't like NJA. You are an employee, nothing more. This in't a genital measuring contest. Somebody had asked about NJA pilots leaving to mainline so in fact my experience would be more relevant than yours, and my initial response didn't trash NJA in the least bit, I merely gave my experience.