Look, there's good and bad things about Horizon Air. Are there problems there? Yes, they have 80 something guys on furlough and yet guys are still picking up premium pay trips. They have a young union with very little solidarity as demonstrated to their furloughees. The upgrade is a long one. Easily ten years plus. They haven't grown in a long, long, time and probably won't for a long, long, time. However those things said, they operate good equipment in a nice area of the country. And for a lot of the pilots there, that is enough to make them lifers. The pay is fairly decent for a regional airline, although I predict pay cuts on the next contract which has been in talks for a while now.

I don't know fellas, a topped out rj captain at QX can make 120,000 K and live in a great part of the country. Man, if you can't be happy on 120k you'll never be happy on 300k. I guess these days you can't ask for much more than that, huh?

I left Horizon and ended up furloughed from Alaska, and I would do it again, but not because Horizon was such a horrible place to be, I just had a different career in mind...

A wise old pilot once told me, "son, when you think about the regional airline you want to work for, consider where you could be happy if you ended up stuck there for your career." Horizon is one of those places that if you did end up stuck there, it wouldn't be the end of the world...