lol, ain't that the truth

 

Reading your grammar, you were not an English major either.

 

No you don't need a college degree to fly airplanes or even be a good pilot. What a college degree does offer is an indication that someone is motivated and interested. Beyond that, college is about two things: knowledge and how to learn/retain that knowledge. Study skills are as important as gaining the knowledge itself. Those same skill sets you learn in college are applicable to flying. Beyond those study skills are critical thinking skills that are beneficial to any pilot. Yes, perhaps some people have them naturally, but college allows others an opportunity to develop their own critical thinking skills. Furthermore, by the time someone graduates from college, they're older, generally more mature, and less reckless (obviously this doesn't work for everyone, but I think most people would agree it's true for many graduates). While none of these are reasons someone MUST have an aviation degree to fly an airplane, they are good things that give pilots more tools to be better pilots.

 

All those same skills can be acquired by earning any type of degree. None of the skills required are specific to an aviation degree.

 

Back to the subject, my top picks were:

1. Republic
2. Expressjet
3. Skywest
4. Pinnacle
5. American Eagle

Republic for the upgrade, bases and expected growth. Expressjet for the bases but worried about the branded stuff. Skywest is good but no Texas bases. Pinnacle for the fast upgrade but I wasn't interested in the bases. Eagle for the base but the upgrade time is aweful, that could change but its a long time right now. They are a stable company though.

 

A good piece of advice. GoJet and Go! may have short upgrades, but the thing to look at is where are people going after such places? Chances are that many are making lateral moves, at best (and the guys at GoJet are likely stuck there for life).

Some are hell-bent on chasing the upgrade (I'm one of those guys, for better or for worse). While I don't think this is a stupid thing to do in and of itself, I do think it is far more risky to chase "growth" upgrades (like what is happening at RAH and SKYW now, what has already happened at ASA), because growth is very erratic. The safer play, if you must chase an upgrade, in my opinion, is to chase an "attrition" upgrade. If people leaving all the time is what makes the upgrade short, it will likely continue (i.e. Great Lakes, Colgan). Unfortunately, working for such places can be a nightmare. Trade-offs.

Just my .02.

 

well, put your money where your mouth is punk...get out your red pen and let's see how good you are.

 

Red pen, what about the red bra? Ha Ha

 

How about take off the red bra and show us how good YOU are...
The money is already in my mouth

 

Quite possibly the funniest thing i have ever red on here!!!