To each his own. The airline that is deemed the "best" is different for each individual and their own personal life style choice and goals. Horizon may be the best regional out there but if you want to live on the east coast and upgrade fast, you would hate life there. Its funny that you say you don't plan on staying with the regionals for an extended period of time. I don't think very many people get on with a regional with the intention of staying there. Especially not now with the way the mainlines are whipsawing the regionals against each other in the famous "race to the bottom". But all it takes is another September 11-type event or a major recession and everyones plans get derailed.


I think hes talking about the massive defections of pilots from Pinnacle. When I interviewed with Pinnacle they said they were losing 30-40 pilots a month due to attrition. That is not normal at an airline the size of Pinnacle. That means one of two things: everyone is leaving Pinnacle for bigger and better things (ie SWA, FDX, UPS, NetJets, etc) or they are seeing the writing on the wall and are tired of the BS and are making lateral moves or getting out of the industry because they cant take it at Pinnacle any more. Who knows, you might get on with Pinnacle and love being based in Snow-town (MSP), No-town(MEM) or Mo-town(DTW), you might love the low pay (hopefully means a lower tax bracket, right?) and you might get a kick out of being junior manned. Like I said, to each his or her own.