Old 11-27-2008 | 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Slugger
Thanks for all the input. This kinda changed my view on the job. I thought that if you were at a regional for like 5 years, you'd be guaranteed a job at a major. I'm going to continue on to get my PPL before college, and I'm going to go to the UND camp this summer, probably for fun, because it doesn't look like I'll be going there anymore....


Wow not many will be able to pull that off. Here we have several 15+ year guys, they are all lifers here. We have many 10+ year guys that probably will still go to a magor if the right opportunity comes along. We have 2 yes 2 guys that got DANG lucky and found themselves as CRJ 900 captains with less than a year at the company, however I believe they are both in their 30's already. We have a number of Saab captains that managed upgrade inside a year here as well. But that was mostly good timing or some people who were already at other regionals for a while that jumped over when we had the couple street captain classes. Either way it came down to luck and good timing. Had some of my classmates taken the recall a couple years ago they'd be a CRJ900 captain with me. They didn't and are now in very serious jeopardy of now being furloughed from Comair.
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