Originally Posted by
Moonwolf
...am I just wasting my time? I have a good paying flying job where life is good, but flight time is single engine vfr. Do you think I should stay put? or go to Eagle and hang on to the roller coaster that might happen. I must say, the lure of flying a jet is working, I never thought I would have shiny jet syndrome but I have it now. GA aircraft just aren't doing it for me.
Life is good? Why would you want to mess with that?
How old are you?
Where do you live and want to live?
Do you have a wife? kids at home?
Are you independently wealthy or at least have a nice cash cushion and little debt?
Are you dying to be an airline pilot or just a jet pilot?
With some seniority Eagle is an ok place, but you will never get rich here. The future is quite uncertain but we'll be ok for a few years I think; like mwa says, the ability to staff our planned flying is the wildcard. A couple of years back we were unable to get enough newhires to do all the flying AA wanted us to do so we left flying uncaptured. That may very well happen again, and soon. OTOH if we can get the staffing and 180 senior captains leave in 2011 (likely at this point imo) then the next couple of years will be good. The planned divestiture is a huge unknown too, and probably will not be a good thing long term imo.
You need to be extremely introspective and exercise severe restraint on the SJS before you make the move. I've flown everything from 150s to 737s and they're all just airplanes. Some of my favorite professional flying was in Navajos, and that was after a furlough from a legacy 737.
We definitely need you though.