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Roy Biggins 10-29-2023 05:04 PM
Is FlyByDildo still *****ing about training pay?

Boomer 10-29-2023 06:32 PM
Originally Posted by Desdi (Post 3717255)
Given your back and forth on here constitutes over 2/3s of your total forum post history I implore you to grow up and stop acting like an entitled brat. Hiring is starting to slow already, 1 price spike in crude when the IRGC closes down the Straits of Hormuz and the economy will quickly come to a halt and you’ll be begging for any opportunity to escape your regional!
Kids these days don’t even remember way back in 2020 when several airlines were furloughing or talking about it… Plus, how many regionals shut down in the first year of COVID?

Brian3613 10-31-2023 05:55 AM
I’m a 7 year captain at regional. With a wife, a kid and a mortgage….I can’t afford to live off of 2000 a month.

I was inverted 10-31-2023 06:24 AM
Originally Posted by Brian3613 (Post 3717951)
I’m a 7 year captain at regional. With a wife, a kid and a mortgage….I can’t afford to live off of 2000 a month.
If you can’t afford 2,000 a month for 45 days to then make more on the backside, you’re doing it wrong. Not saying you should necessarily go to B6, I wouldn’t right now frankly, but your finances should allow for a 45 day period making $2,000 if that’s the cost of a career move that allows for much larger compensation, retirement, and benefits. Also need that kind of cushion in place in case you end up furloughed, which is always in play at regionals. Just my $.02.

Tornado875 10-31-2023 06:27 AM
Originally Posted by I was inverted (Post 3717969)
If you can’t afford 2,000 a month for 45 days to then make more on the backside, you’re doing it wrong. Not saying you should necessarily go to B6, I wouldn’t right now frankly, but your finances should allow for a 45 day period making $2,000 if that’s the cost of a career move that allows for much larger compensation, retirement, and benefits. Also need that kind of cushion in place in case you end up furloughed, which is always in play at regionals. Just my $.02.
Yeah good grief. Imagine living paycheck to paycheck as an airline captain.

avi8orco 10-31-2023 07:38 AM
Originally Posted by Tornado875 (Post 3717973)
Yeah good grief. Imagine living paycheck to paycheck as an airline captain.
we’ve got a few…..

MergingTargets 10-31-2023 08:11 AM
If you can't afford 1 month at 2 grand with free food, you suck at finances and life-planning. Period.

Tornado875 10-31-2023 08:13 AM
Originally Posted by MergingTargets (Post 3718036)
If you can't afford 1 month at 2 grand with free food, you suck at finances. Period.
He has been a captain at a regional with hiring as it has been for the last two years, I would wager financial smarts aren't the only thing he is lacking....

Red Forman 10-31-2023 08:14 AM
Originally Posted by Your name here (Post 3714106)
Not trying to throw shade, but suck it up. It’s ONLY 45 days out of your career. Y’all have it so easy, stop complaining.
Or JB could catch up with the industry.

MergingTargets 10-31-2023 08:35 AM
Originally Posted by Red Forman (Post 3718038)
Or JB could catch up with the industry.
JetBlue should offer commensurate pay and benefits, even to new hires, nobody is arguing that. But this woe is me, oh my poor bank account nonsense is bizarre. It's literally a single month of reduced pay, then you're on an 80 hour guarantee for a month doing OE... then you're easily clearing 6 figures and pouring cash into your 401K for the rest of your career. Ahem, if we stay in business, ahem...

Boomer 10-31-2023 09:05 AM
Originally Posted by Brian3613 (Post 3717951)
I’m a 7 year captain at regional. With a wife, a kid and a mortgage….I can’t afford to live off of 2000 a month.
I couldn’t afford 3 grand to buy my ATP back when JetBlue required it. I applied anyway. When I finally got my ATP 6 years later, JetBlue hired me fairly quickly. Of course I lost over 1000 numbers seniority-wise; it probably cost me 5 years of Captain pay, plus two regionals collapsed under me in the meantime.

Now, if I need three grand, I pick up a 2-day trip on my days off. So looking back, I should have done just about anything to scrape together that three grand for the ATP to get out of the regionals. Live and learn.

MergingTargets 10-31-2023 10:29 AM
Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 3718070)
I couldn’t afford 3 grand to buy my ATP back when JetBlue required it. I applied anyway. When I finally got my ATP 6 years later, JetBlue hired me fairly quickly. Of course I lost over 1000 numbers seniority-wise; it probably cost me 5 years of Captain pay, plus two regionals collapsed under me in the meantime.

Now, if I need three grand, I pick up a 2-day trip on my days off. So looking back, I should have done just about anything to scrape together that three grand for the ATP to get out of the regionals. Live and learn.
Anyone who spends *one minute* longer than they need to at a regional has extremely suspect judgement, in my opinion. Being comfortable is absolutely your enemy when you're at a fee-for-departure company.


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