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Old 11-23-2009 | 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by AAL763
I will graduate from High School in 2011. Hopefully, I will graduate from college with all my ratings in 2015-2017, depending on if I stay on as a CFI. If I have the hours, which airline should I fly for. Should I go for American, Delta, Continental, etc, or go for the smaller ones like AirTran, Southwest, or Midwest. Or maybe one of the Cargo carriers like UPS, Fedex, etc. Primarily I would like to know which airline has the best benefits, best pay, best routes, most fun, and overall best standard of living?

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Robert
It's impossible to answer your question because it deals with the future. And in aviation, even a month into the future is hard to predict. We can go on and on about benefits but it wouldn't do you much good as in 10 years or more when you're ready, things will have changed a lot. You also do not mention the very big step between CFI and Major airline flying which is where most of us will be stuck in. It's called the regionals and it SUCKS. Airline is easier flying even though you're still gone as much as other types of flying. Cargo is harder flying but it has it's advantages as well where you don't have to deal with passengers and get to go to interesting places as a lot of cargo is International flying. Another option would be the fractional aviation, you get the schedule of the airlines but different destinations as well. Flying is still cool but there is more to a job than the actual job itself. Family, economy etc play a very big role. Pay, compensation, quality of life and right now those things have gone way down. Focus on what you can control like school and seriously think about other career fields.
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