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01-31-2023 | 07:39 AM
#31
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If you were dumb enough to do all of that for $600 then sounds like you were paid accordingly. Seems like less of a badge of honor and more of a mark of idiocy.
Personally I stayed away from the regionals because I valued my skills and hard work too much to sell it for McDonald’s wages. Also, I did not want to further exasperate the industry and be another guy they hired saying “I’m willing to work for food stamps.”
The old timers that knowingly went to the regionals when it was the worst of the worst WERE the problems. You only showed regional management that you could be bought for a cheap price and so you were.
Stop complaining about how good new pilots have it now when you were willing to work for cheap with terrible work rules. If it was that bad you should have gone 135, military, or something outside of the aviation industry. Otherwise shut up and accept that you sold your skills for a lesser price than others.
Personally I stayed away from the regionals because I valued my skills and hard work too much to sell it for McDonald’s wages. Also, I did not want to further exasperate the industry and be another guy they hired saying “I’m willing to work for food stamps.”
The old timers that knowingly went to the regionals when it was the worst of the worst WERE the problems. You only showed regional management that you could be bought for a cheap price and so you were.
Stop complaining about how good new pilots have it now when you were willing to work for cheap with terrible work rules. If it was that bad you should have gone 135, military, or something outside of the aviation industry. Otherwise shut up and accept that you sold your skills for a lesser price than others.
01-31-2023 | 07:46 AM
#32
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Joined: Jan 2008
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From: blueJet
If you were dumb enough to do all of that for $600 then sounds like you were paid accordingly. Seems like less of a badge of honor and more of a mark of idiocy.
Personally I stayed away from the regionals because I valued my skills and hard work too much to sell it for McDonald’s wages. Also, I did not want to further exasperate the industry and be another guy they hired saying “I’m willing to work for food stamps.”
The old timers that knowingly went to the regionals when it was the worst of the worst WERE the problems. You only showed regional management that you could be bought for a cheap price and so you were.
Stop complaining about how good new pilots have it now when you were willing to work for cheap with terrible work rules. If it was that bad you should have gone 135, military, or something outside of the aviation industry. Otherwise shut up and accept that you sold your skills for a lesser price than others.
Personally I stayed away from the regionals because I valued my skills and hard work too much to sell it for McDonald’s wages. Also, I did not want to further exasperate the industry and be another guy they hired saying “I’m willing to work for food stamps.”
The old timers that knowingly went to the regionals when it was the worst of the worst WERE the problems. You only showed regional management that you could be bought for a cheap price and so you were.
Stop complaining about how good new pilots have it now when you were willing to work for cheap with terrible work rules. If it was that bad you should have gone 135, military, or something outside of the aviation industry. Otherwise shut up and accept that you sold your skills for a lesser price than others.
01-31-2023 | 08:08 AM
#33
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Joined: Jun 2006
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Pinnacle, Mesaba, and Colgan still exist. Their paychecks just say something different now. And they all have a flow.
01-31-2023 | 08:20 AM
#34
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Joined: Feb 2009
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If you were dumb enough to do all of that for $600 then sounds like you were paid accordingly. Seems like less of a badge of honor and more of a mark of idiocy.
Personally I stayed away from the regionals because I valued my skills and hard work too much to sell it for McDonald’s wages. Also, I did not want to further exasperate the industry and be another guy they hired saying “I’m willing to work for food stamps.”
The old timers that knowingly went to the regionals when it was the worst of the worst WERE the problems. You only showed regional management that you could be bought for a cheap price and so you were.
Stop complaining about how good new pilots have it now when you were willing to work for cheap with terrible work rules. If it was that bad you should have gone 135, military, or something outside of the aviation industry. Otherwise shut up and accept that you sold your skills for a lesser price than others.
Personally I stayed away from the regionals because I valued my skills and hard work too much to sell it for McDonald’s wages. Also, I did not want to further exasperate the industry and be another guy they hired saying “I’m willing to work for food stamps.”
The old timers that knowingly went to the regionals when it was the worst of the worst WERE the problems. You only showed regional management that you could be bought for a cheap price and so you were.
Stop complaining about how good new pilots have it now when you were willing to work for cheap with terrible work rules. If it was that bad you should have gone 135, military, or something outside of the aviation industry. Otherwise shut up and accept that you sold your skills for a lesser price than others.
01-31-2023 | 08:55 AM
#35
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Joined: Jan 2008
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From: blueJet
Compass, Trans States, Comair, ASA, ACA, Expressjet… those guys don’t exist.
01-31-2023 | 07:49 PM
#36
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$600? He said he was being paid $21/hr as a FO (which is horrible, for sure), so I’m thinking his pay was probably more like $1,600 or so.
02-01-2023 | 08:55 PM
#37
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Joined: Jul 2022
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I upgraded at JB about 6 months after I would have at 9E. That would’ve been a 9 year upgrade at 9E. Taking first available at both. There is something to say for advancing faster. Of course a friend who stayed (15 yrs) will be an ER Capt next year after he took his flow, but it’ll be in NY on RSV and I’m almost past RSV days here. Some perspective. Take it or leave it. Unique window and mileage varies, but I wouldn’t have changed anything I did. We all know how thing can change ten minutes ago.
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