Originally Posted by
Excargodog
So right now the fastest course to be considered by the Big Three seems to be get your ATP and a year of flying at a regional and then jump to an LCC/ULCC which has plenty of FO flying because it has a viable CA wage scale (even NK tops out at over $300 an hour plus DC) where you can QUICKLY accumulate flight hours in a 320/737 aircraft and where the Big Three will be hurting a competitor - not their own feed - when they hire you.
So what is the way forward for ulccs with growth plans if they have the same people accumulating FO hours and not producing captain hours?