Originally Posted by dash trash
Wow, Bitter Much? You need to get over it bro! Horizon is hireing a little. About 8 a month for the fall and spring. We do small classes. Horizon pilots are some of the highest paid in the country. We make more that Skywest and are MUCH more stable. Horizon may not be the fastest upgrade, but you are on solid ground. We fly under our own name, sell our own tickets and contract only a small number of RJ's to Frontier. What do you think will happen to Skywest when Delta goes BK? When UAL decides to change the contract? Are you willing to pin your hopes on DAL and UAL? That is what you do at Skywest. This is not bad, just risky. Horizon's bases are SEA PDX and DEN. Not to bad. Good pay. Strong contract. The pilot group is Great. We do have lot of senior pilots here, but why not. Make 100K a year and no commute? Not too shabby. Good thing you had a chance to leave the company. Mabey it was your attitude that was bringing down the moral around you!
Mahalo.
Are you one of the latest hires? I am sure that to a CFI who just got on at Horizon then it would seem like a great place. However, I still know a lot of people who work there and I hear that much of the attrition is from people leaving in disgust. Besides I don't know what you have been reading but I am told that it takes 20 years to get to 115K. That is a long time to someone who is trying to start a family on 24K per year.
If flying anything is your goal and you don't mind being tired and ragged on your days off then Horizon is for you. The majority of the time you are there you will be earning less than poverty wages and 8 to 9 legs a day takes its toll. Yea I am bitter at Horizon, it is proof that I spent some time there. Everyone older than 25 is bitter and angry at the company. My take home pay was $450 every two weeks. We all grew old and depressed while pilots ot other companies passed us all by for Alaska Airlines. Horizon is a conseviative company. They will sit on the sidelines and watch others take on opportunity. Lets talk again in two years and we will see what you opinion is by then. The kicker is that if you leave within two years then you are black balled from Alaska, but then Alaska wouldn't hire you anyway since they were not hiring Hirizon pilots at the time. It was my biggest career mistake.
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