Originally Posted by fosters
Take a deep breath, drink some beer, and relax. I've explained earlier why eagle may suit some people.
You seem to a be a little bit jealous of the guys hired at 500TT. I had a few buddies get hired on at eagle with that time, none of them PFT'd to do it. Sorry to disappoint you. Oh btw, most left for greener pastures as eagle didn't have a training contract.
If one had gone to eagle in 2001-2002 or gone to ANY other regional carrier sans ACA, they'd be a captain. At eagle they'd be a semi senior FO. Even if they jumped ship 2 years later they'd be CA's if they had gone to Xjet, Chautauqua/Republic, AWAC to name a few.
People not going anywhere? Maybe not if they're at eagle. There's been CA's that have left my airline in the last 6-8 months for a lot of different places including FedEx, UPS, CAL, netjets, flexjet, citation shares, jetblue, frontier, airtran, southwest, etc.
without PIC time you don't stand much of a chance at moving on to bigger and better. at least with it, there's a "slight" chance
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Here Here Fosters!
Unfortunately, most Eagle pilots try to convince themselves and others that Eagle is not a bad choice and that hiring and upgrades suck everywhere else. Its not true, and you pointed that out. Thank you.
Just get used to the fact that if you point out a good place to go (like you did with your list of airlines) an Eagle pilot will be quick to say that those are not real airlines or find some other reason to discount the fact that those places are a step up from Eagle.
I'm waiting to hear from you RJPilot......