Originally Posted by
Planegeek
Can you expand on that? What does one have to lose going to spirit? Last I checked sky west starting pay was the same as spirit (pending the new skywest offer) and year two it double where as skywest is a $5 raise. Not to mention regionals are still parking planes and fos aren’t flying at many of the regionals due to saturation of the fo market and lack of senior pilots to fill crews.
Does spirit have that problem?
Yes, we are parking planes and cutting our schedule because we can't staff. You get $1700/mo your first 3 months here, with no medical coverage. Year 2 captain at Skywest makes around the same as a year 2 FO here, and so on. The guy asking the question is in a financial crunch and has no long term aspirations to stay here, so he shouldn't come here. He should upgrade, get his PIC, and go to a major.