Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
I’m not saying it is worth it. See my post above, but your understanding of the pay at WOs isn’t quite complete. If you get hired at a WO with more than 750 hours of 121 flight time, you will be paid at the captain rate, and they are giving “years of service” credit. So if you have 800 hours and two years 121, you will be paid as a 3rd year captain… as an FO. You will also likely be able to upgrade soon after getting 950 hours, so if the actual PIC time is what you’re after it is a relatively quick and reasonably well paying way to get it, although your QOL will suffer immensely.
Doesn’t the new scale cap put at year 3 for fo or captain? If I remember correctly that is and a 2nd year fo at spirit makes roughly $40 less. Assuming you can upgrade year 3 at spirit you’re now ahead of anything envoy can pay you. The people maybe questioning it are going to be first year new hire fos at spirit. If you’re coming up on a year and about to roll over to year 2 it doesn’t seem economical. You’ll gain $40 more an hour for a year, assuming the best case scenario that you get the captain pay. But then the following year you’ll give up $60/hr because you didn’t stay and upgrade with spirit. All this assuming you even have to stay for that long if your plan is ultimately to go to a legacy.