Originally Posted by dashtrash300

My plan WAS to get hired after college with a regional (at 21), spend 2 years in the right seat then upgrade when I turned 23. Spend about a year and a half as a captain and then move over to a certain major to fly with my Dad for like 5 years before he retires and my cousin for like 15 years before he retires.

So far, I got hired after college at 21 with a regional. Sadly, it was with a retirement regional so 55 of our current captains were hired before I was born and 93 of our captains were hired before 1990 with the most junior captain being on for 4 years! Not to mention the top 3-4 captains were hired before 1980. So because of these guys that wouldn't move on to bigger and better things, I am now worrying about my job in the right seat praying that I don't get furloughed. Since when did a regional airline become a stopping point in aviation?

The moral of the story is that having a plan is great! It helps to set in motion what you need to do to get things done. Just make sure that you are flexible and know that not everything works out the way we want it.

Originally Posted by dashtrash300

Yeah, I wasn't sure. I have only been here at Piedmont for just under 3 years so I wasn't around when any "contract" was signed for jet flying. I am just going by what every angry lifer captain here at Piedmont has told me. Which isn't saying to much about my intelligence.

Originally Posted by dashtrash300

First off buddy, I never said I was 23. And who cares if I was. I have met 23 year FO's and CA's that could fly circles around 50 year old CA's. Age has nothing to do with it.