Originally Posted by
atpmax
Hello all,
Are there any regionals out there that actually give new FO's more opportunity to actually fly instead of sit reserve all of the time. So many sad stories from my friends who are six months to one year in at a regional airline and they are still barely flying. One friend has barely cracked 200 hours in a year.
You’ve gotta take it one day at a time in this industry. It will teach you how to be patient. Your chance to fly will come. Most regionals will allow you the opportunity to pick up some open time to fly on your hard days off. So it’s not like there’s zero flying. But then again if you have family you might want to think twice about working on your days off unless you live in base.
At my regional I kept hearing I would be on reserve for about a year and a half but was able to hold a line in 7 months. Things are changing so what’s true yesterday won’t be true in 6-12 months.