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01-05-2019 | 10:12 AM

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Yeah I hear you on chasing the higher pay. I just want to be comfortable being a captain rather than saying you have the time now have at it, plus a company that respects that. My end goal is JetBlue or Spirit being that eventually I can hold MCO and be home. I don’t care for flow and extra money. I have CJOs from several regionals I’m
narrowing it down to PSA, XJT, and SKYW

Yeah I totally understand. To be honest...I don't know if the forced upgrades will continue to be a thing for all that much longer. We hired a ton of pilots here in 2018 and even the backend of 2017. Classes have been a lot smaller recently... Those hired in 17/18 will be upgrading and then we should have better numbers captains wise.

This all depends on if Moxy takes pilots from us, and of course other attrition.

01-05-2019 | 10:27 AM

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I’m about to put regionals in a hat and draw. I don’t care about pay, flow, commute and etc.

01-05-2019 | 11:37 AM

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I’m about to put regionals in a hat and draw. I don’t care about pay, flow, commute and etc.

If you don’t care about anything then go to silver and fly the SAAB sand eventually the new ATRs and be at home. If you don’t have to commute I’d advise against it. Good luck.

01-05-2019 | 12:02 PM

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lol I saw the order when is that supposed to start up

01-05-2019 | 12:41 PM

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Yeah like tlamja said, I think the forced upgrades will start to tapper off. Our reserve coffers are stupid full for CA in some bases and guys are going over a month sometimes without flying. One other thing to consider is FO reserve times are on the rise as well with CLT being a little over a year and all the other bases being 8-11 months. This will not help you when trying to get the 1000 hours 121 time to be eligible to upgrade. These times may go down if the pace of our aircraft deliveries picks up to arrive at our planned fleet size of 150 aircraft. I think we are in the mid 130s now. Good luck with your choice.

01-05-2019 | 01:49 PM

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lol I saw the order when is that supposed to start up

I think they start off with deliveries in 2020? Or 2021? Not sure but if its 2020, they’ll start hiring probably late this year to get pilots in training and what not.

I also don’t know what kind of minimums they’ll have. Frontier is now hiring guys right out of college with 1000 hours and 25 hours of multi engine time, so it wouldn’t surprise me if Moxy could be taking a number of our (and other regional) pilots and applicants.