Originally Posted by rickair7777

The philosophical problem with this idea...

A healthy FO attrition is not necessarily bad for a rock-bottom regional...If you stay for a year, the company more than made up for their training costs by getting all that flying out of you at first-year pay.

If you do that, then go to a better regional...well, you just spent a year undercutting the better regional that you hope to enjoy (not to mention the mainline).

I enjoyed the heck out of flight instructing, and I can safely say that I would rather CFI for a year than do TWO new-hire training programs in the same timeframe. Each interview & new-hire training program removes about 3 months from your life... It might be a different story if your CFI opportunities are minimal or the work environment is crap.

Let's all encourage new folks to avoid the very worst of the regionals...if bottom-feeders feel enough pain, maybe they will scale back their abuse...or disapear.