Doubt no more.

 

Hey guys. I'm currently CFI'ing and will be looking to enter the life of a regional pilot in the next month or two. Yeah I know...what am I thinking? I'm really leaning towards PSA since I live right outside of DAY. But I'm getting yelled at by people from other airlines to stay away from PSA. It's no secret that Envoy and PSA aren't good buddies at the moment. But I'm hearing from my former CFI who's at RAH that their pilots aren't happy with PSA pilots and don't respect them. Same thing a friend of mine told me who's at XJT. What's more concerning is that my gf's father flies for Delta and he has ins with the hiring department there and his brother is a check airman at AA. Even he's telling me to go to any regional except PSA because their actions are being looked at more closely by the majors than they think. I don't want to be an outcast in the aviation community and have to worry about JS denials, but when it all comes down to it this isn't a popularity contest and living in base obviously is huge. Not to mention the growth and quick upgrade time that PSA seems to be positioned for. What kind of feedback can you guys who work there give me? Thanks.

 

Awesome!!!!

 

I've been thru the MIA crew lounge a few times in the last few weeks. Never saw that sign. Wouldn't have removed it if I did tho.

:st:

 

John, an honest question looking for an honest answer; would you say there is an anti PSA feeling permeating AA? I.e. Do you think working for Psa would hinder ones career when it comes to being hired at a major? Compared to say RAH, compass, Gojets, or PDT?

 

What a joke...

 

stand corrected. it should not be though.

 

It comes down to a personal decision for you. I can tell you from personal experience that commuting to a regional job sucks. Commuting to reserves in the regional sucks even more, and commuting to a stagnated seniority list while on reserves is a nightmare. Eliminate as many of those combinations as you can, and your quality of life is vastly improved.

You only can 11 days off a month at the majority of airlines, so pick the airline where your quality of life is the highest for the other 20 days out of the month.

 

The best thing you can do at the regionals is do your time and get out as quickly as possible. Living in base is a HUGE improvement to QOL and if the only choice is PSA then you'd be dumb not to take it. Most pilots dont care who you fly for. Hell jumpseating the past few weeks Ive had both mainline and regional pilots encourage me to jump from my current airline to go to PSA. With all the hiring coming up (115/month at delta, 65/month at united, 50/month at AA) they wont be blacklisting a pilot because of what regional they flew for. I wouldnt worry, Im certainly not.

 

Hey guys so I just got emailed for an interview with PSA for the end of the month. This would be my first regional Job and looks like a good move for my career advancement. If I were offered the job I was planning on accepting a class date for sometime in January. Would requesting a class date that far in advance have a significant effect on my seniority and possible upgrade time?
Regards, Tony