SWA,

All I wished to do was to have a career that I enjoyed that would help me build a family and fulfill my responsibilities. As pointed out by an earlier post Horizon has a strange bid system. The pay is around 50-56K for a Dash 8 Capt and it takes ten years and around 150K to get there. The model works if one were to get on with a major airline in their late 20's or early 30's. I don't believe that flying for Horizon is a reasonible risk for ones fanancial future. I have often wondered if I had taken all the money I ever spent on aviation and invested it in real estate I would be much better off. Doing what you love is great but in the end we all need to make a living. I wish I was at SWA or ALaska Air, but it isnt in the cards for the majority of us.


SkyHigh