Horizon Air Hiring any time soon?
08-21-2011 | 08:52 AM
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To realize your goal of flying for a major airline you need PIC time. You'll spend a decade at QX in the right seat. You'll need 2000 hours of SIC time at QX to be considered for an interview at Alaska.
So what's you ultimate goal? If its to live in the Pacific Northwest go for QX. Just realize you may get trapped there for your career.
If its to get a major airline job, find a regional where you can upgrade quickly. Get your PIC time and move on.
So what's you ultimate goal? If its to live in the Pacific Northwest go for QX. Just realize you may get trapped there for your career.
If its to get a major airline job, find a regional where you can upgrade quickly. Get your PIC time and move on.
08-21-2011 | 06:53 PM
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Nothing is wrong with staying in the PNW, but the CA's I flew with while I was at QX who stayed there as a lifestyle choice, and are now QX-4-lifers were genererally the least happy. I could see one reason why; they watched their airline go down the tubes over the years. On the other hand, they've spent the majority of their career earning a barely liveable wage for the region. Once they finally got captain pay, they started to play financial catch-up. It's easy to say that all you need is to be a Q400 CA in your career, but say that after 15 years, and you're juggling a mortgage, 401k, student loans, 529 plan, etc. Especially when you could've gone someplace that is a stepping stone to the legacies, been at one in 4-5 years, and making 5 -10 year FO pay (which would likely exceed 15 year QX CA pay), based in SEA or SFO, working 12-15 days / month
Edit: I could see QX being a great place to land for young people (<35) who want to end up at AS. Or if you already have a stack of cash under your mattress and money is not an issue.
If you want a job to suit your lifestyle right now, forget the airlines. Become a cop, a firefighter, an accountant, etc. You have to build your life around this job for the first 5-10 years. If you accept this fact, you'll probably be better off (and happier) in the long run. JMHO
Edit: I could see QX being a great place to land for young people (<35) who want to end up at AS. Or if you already have a stack of cash under your mattress and money is not an issue.
If you want a job to suit your lifestyle right now, forget the airlines. Become a cop, a firefighter, an accountant, etc. You have to build your life around this job for the first 5-10 years. If you accept this fact, you'll probably be better off (and happier) in the long run. JMHO
I always joke with myself I shoulda been ATC!
Cheers
08-22-2011 | 10:21 AM
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All FO's in all bases are being offered Time Off Without Pay (TWOP) for the next bid or two. That means we are over staffed with FO's and we are not adverse to furloughing if TWOP doesn't get the staffing where it needs to be. I am not sure we are going to hire anytime soon and if we do good luck!
08-22-2011 | 06:43 PM
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I'm from the NW and grew up with AS captains living in the same neighbor hood as my parents. They all said go to QX when things were good. Now after teaching some of there kids how to fly and flying for a non north west regional they say that networking is the key to get an interview.
08-28-2011 | 10:59 AM
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I've been really thinking about that too!! My friend is ATC at a fairly calm airport (EUG), my age, and just barely completed his training (which cost almost nothing compared to the student loans I ended up with going through flight training), and he's making 80,000 a year. And here I am, only making 20,000 flying...
But then I remember how much more fun flying is.
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