Originally Posted by FNFAL

I understand where you are coming from, we have all been there. When you here negative comments about a company that you are intent on getting hired at, you think "no these guys are just losers that complain about anything" or " these guys just aren't as hardcore as i am"
You need to be able to distinguish complaining from real problems. Pinnacle has real problems. CA's and FO's get treated like 1st graders that are incapable of making decisions about fuel, weather, diverts, rest, fatigue, lunch breaks, MEL's, etc. You don't sleep much, you don't have time to eat.

The pay is substandard, the schedules aren't commutable, management is hostile and vindictive. The "efficient" schedules manage to give you constant 14+ hour duty days with reduced rest or tons of high speeds. They manage to make a long duty day by hitting you will 4 hour "productivity breaks" almost every day. Layovers suck and are short. You are going to be doing high speeds like a mother.

Quitting isn't as easy as you make it sound, because of the age old airline wisdom of "movers are losers". So you slug it out day after day, pounding coffee to survive and dealing with bitter crews, rampers, and gate agents, that for some reason decided that another day at a terrible airline is better than jumping in front of a speeding bus (just barely). Don't take anyones word for it, come on over, 9E needs a constant supply of bright eyed new hire pilots because many of them don't make it one year.