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Low cost major instead of Regionals?

Old 03-04-2019, 04:28 PM
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My experience is that it will clearly show that you’re looking at a ULCC as a stepping stone in the interview. They are hypersensitive about this, and aren’t interested in being an intermediate step.

Btw, LCC’s are companies like SWA and B6. ULCC’s are Spirit and Frontier.

I’m former AMF and went to a fractional after feeder freight stint before heading to a ULCC. I’d highly recommend the AMF route, but understand that future major retirements will Hoover up regional and military pilots in ways that you can’t fathon right now. Life is a crapshoot, but I’d head to a regional post AMF at this point if the legacies are your goal. Pay will continue to get better, upgrades will be quick and the majors will be calling. They don’t have a choice unless the retirement can gets kicked down the road again.

Assuming that a ULCC will just hire a moderately experienced freight doggy is wishful thinking at this point too. Everyone in my new hire clas was either a regional captain, a fractional captain and or a check airman with the exception of one regional FO. 10,000 TT and 3-4000 TPIC was probably the average experience level.
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