Originally Posted by
Ace66
I hope you realize that if you are on 4+ year captain pay at a regional, you'll make more money staying there than you will moving to United as a 737 FO until you upgrade. Look at the numbers. And there are many, many people who got stuck in the right seat for 10-15 years before they could upgrade.
Not many realize that regional (non-DEC) captains make more than their peers who are NB mainline FO's right now. (By peers, I mean two people who started flying for the regionals at the same time, one stayed and the other jumped to United).
Assuming no upgrade here are the 5 year numbers:
Major FO - 642k + 103k retirement = 745k
CA Regional (year 4- 8) 751k + 46.7k = 797.7k
* Retirement for regional is the companies 5% contribution (years 4 and 5) and after year 5 the added 2% direct contribution added to the regular 5% matching. This is the Horizon & Skywest contract and I also believe AA's wholly owned.
Totals at Year 6
Major FO 796k - 127.4k = 923.4k
Regional CA 913k - 58k = 971k