Originally Posted by pilotjogger

I tried to post a thread but I think I'm too new to do so..

I am a CFI a few months past ATP mins. It's tough to get a first airline job out there, uuuuuuugh I thought a first airline job would be a regional one.....can't imagine that's too tough these days..... but maybe times have changed

The golden wave has passed. It seems like it's virtually a guarantee that regular joe-schmoes like me will never have a realistic shot at a legacy. A year/two years ago guys with DUIs and 3 checkride failures were making legacies with 800 turbine hours, and now guys like me with a pristine record... Are we screwed? Is that what this is coming down to?

UA was the dream. Many of my long time life friends work there. I am 33, and I feel so behind right now but due to life, I just couldn't make the jump until 2019 to start flying.

Do I have any prayers hope or chance of making a legacy, specifically UA? If I do make it, am I doomed to being on reserve for 5+ years and being a double furloughee? With all these hires they've made the last few years and everything slowing down now it sure feels like the rest of us are ****ed.
Hmmmm it really depends on your definition of doomed is?.....Are you gonna be a wide body captain by the time your 45...........continue to make between 380,000- Half a Mil every year ...........Yeah that's not happening. But say you get hired at age 38.....that's still 27 years.....and let's assume you are only a narrow body FO for all those 27 years....that still like 4,5 Mil over a career..........I don't know I mean if you are also a board certified anesthesiologist maybe I'd give up flying and do that......but my guess that beats most things you are qualified to do......it sure as hell does for me!
Furthermore you are already a CFI so you've already went through the expensive part, so you kind of owe it to yourself to stick with it.....

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