Originally Posted by
Margaritaville
Well said.
I'm here because I'm concerned that prospective pilots and newhires at Allegiant are being lied to and sold a fantasy that they will someday have the great life of home every night where you want to live, fly when and where you want, and take vacation when you want, for 1/4 of a mil a year that the super senior pilots here have and love to brag about.
This travel company is a pyramid scheme. You will only have that life if you got in on the ground floor 10-15 years ago. It's different from other airlines because with a young pilot group there are very few retirements, and the senior folks, who have it so good and are vocally selling this place here to keep the crumbling foundation of their pyramid intact, aren't leaving. Anyone hired today probably won't exceed 30% in the company in their career unless they were hired in their 20s and spend 30+ years here. There is practically zero growth potential here now. It's about to become America's most stagnant airline. You will spend many, many years on the bottom of the pyramid, working under the lowest pay and crappiest work rules in the industry.
The mods have told me they don't like my tone anymore, so I'll make this my last post on the topic.
I left Allegiant well over a year ago to work at a legacy airline with a Florida base not far from my Space Coast home. I have zero regrets. I'll be back to A320 CA in a year or two and make back every penny I lost by leaving and then some. I'll still have 10-ish years left too.
I hope anyone looking at this airline (travel company) reads this sometime in the future and seriously ponders it, not what the recruiters and scared seniors are saying.
Best of luck to you all.
I agree with the stagnation in Florida and IWA, LAS looks like 10-15 years and the top 50% of CA's will be gone and the remainder of the country will be the revolving door aside from the top 2 seats in base. It's truly a gamble, the same stuff was said to pilots who left for this little FAT startup. The fact of the matter is none of us know where we'll be when the music stops. You could be here, you could be in indoc for wide bodies or you could be sitting on a beach retired. Once it stops, the only winners are those who survive the furlough cut that does not know the difference between ULCC or Legacy.
All BS aside Margi, always enjoy giving each other a hard time on here. First round is on me if we cross paths out east. Come visit with us soon!