You had no idea. When you were at TSA, you had nothing to compare it to, so as your first airline(otherwise you would agree with me), you were shocked that a highly qualified pilot like yourself was treated like dirt as a junior person. Of course things magically become better at the other regional where you gave up seniority and got back on reserve, in order to make yourself feel better. I came from a small dbag pt135 operator prior to TSA and as far as I was concerned, I was at a serious airline and was never once screwed and everyone that dealt with my QOL at TSA was very nice. You were at TSA back when they had no pilots and were junioring people left and right, that is not them trying to screw you, it's them trying to run an airline. Other than the somewhat good old boys thing they've got going around managment pilots, TSA is a normal airline and the ERJ was a blast to fly. Not worth lateraling. I would understand lateraling from places like Great Lakes or Gulstream or any other pt135 commuter though.


Just my opinion. From talking to the CAs that stuck it out and upgraded rather than latteraling to RAH or Xjet said it was the best decision they could have made. Their buddies were stuck on reserve or still as FOs.