Originally Posted by
FlyingPirate
So....
Lots of Multi turbine time, quick upgrade, lots of PIC time, and majors in 4 years! Whats so bad about that. It seems like most who are at the regionals are only there to transition to the majors. Why not do it sooner?
Sure you won't make much but from those at Lakes now it sounds like you will be working over 100 a month at 16hr thats as much at any regional flying guarantee.
It also sounds like the majors like those from lakes because of the difficult flying they do.
Thanks for the posts everyone!
Not quite so peachy. 85 hours average is still around 16k per year, before taxes! If you're on track to actually fly 100 per month for 12 months, you're more than likely going to hate your life. It's one of the examples of if it was easy everyone would do it. Most come in with your mentality but the temptation of the shiny dual FMS equipped CRJ/170s that fly very high and fast is too great for most who lateral when they do meet the mins. Those guys that actually stick around have definitely paid their dues because the flying is definitely harder with all the BS of a cheap operation that comes with it.