hey man dont let all the negativity and endless bi***ing on this site bring you down. i have found that most guys that really enjoy this job try to stay off of these sites, or at least take everything written as a grain of salt. This career is what you make of it, its not the greatest, but with a good schedule, some decent work rules, and a fair amount of time off, this job, in my own opinion, is one of the greatest jobs there is. But one thing is, you have to have a lot of patience to make it through some serious BS to get a decent QOL. I feel in the next ten years things will get a lot better for airline pilots, it couldnt get much worse.
But if you get a stable job, just show up and do it, and just let some minor stuff roll of your shoulder, the job is awesome.
You mostly hear about all the bad stuff on these forums but most people never post about their good experiences or why they continually do this job despite their unhappiness. I mean really, people that hate this job dont do it for the money, you could easily work construction or bartend and make more than any regional FO, but notice most people dont get out of the industry. Some do, but most would rather have a crappy airline pilot job, than a good normal job. Including myself, even the worse day of flying is usually better than the average joes work day. So dont let our half empty glasses ruin your drink, its what you make of it. Have fun!

 

I've been reading the top 5 reginals to work for.... where do you work? I only made it to the 10th page or so. Getting late here and I'm going to have to go to bed. Work tomorrow at my boring warehouse job. Pay is nice at 16 bucks an hour and a half hearted guarantee of 40 hours a week. They promise us our full hours, but push us out the door as soon as they can. I work 4 ten hour days, then I'm off 3 days. What is the "average" new hire schedual? I've yet to learn how the 3 4 day trip thing works out. The websites say 70-80 hour a month guarantee. I've read in the posts that alot of pilots are working about 80-100 hours. How does a "normal" "new hires" schedual work? I'd appreciate it if someone could enlighten me. Give me a run through of an "average" month for some of you.

 

I highly doubt you know that. You need to post proof. You constanly claim that CHQ wasn't the lowest bidder, but still have yet to prove it.

 

Pretty sure TSA was cheaper than RAH...

 

No contempt for the CHQ pilots, most of them are stand up guys. Its their management that ticks me off. Bedford badmouths XJET for keeping the airplanes and further crowding the skys with regionals jets that nobody wants, then he goes and PULLS CRJs OUT OF THE BONEYARD. Talk about a hypocrite. And CAL didn't "86 a ton of our flying", they removed a whopping 69 airplanes. And CAL is not happy with CHQs performance to date. In GSO the gate agents are tired of the weight restrictions so they just pass out $1000 vouchers right off the bat. Same thing happened in COS and MSP. All three have easily spent $70,000 a month in denied boarding compensation. And CAL actually begged us to keep some of our XRs in the CAL fleet to pick up the slack the CHQ operation has left behind. You name it, broke airplanes, no crew, wrong crew(ERJ crew to fly a CRJ, its happened many times) crew members constantly missing DHs, the 90 day eval was not good.

 

And how does anyone know who bid what? I don't believe that info is public.

 

You're right; its not public information. By the same token, you cannot reasonably claim that RAH was in fact the lowest bidder.

Between RAH and TSA, I have no doubt whatsoever that Hulas would have put out the cheaper bid, if only because TSA's bid for UAX flying was lower.

 

I will agree with you on both points. That being said Sharky needs to stop making the claim that CHQ was not the lowest bidder. He doesn't know, just as I don't know if they were the lowest bidder. If TSA did in fact put in a bid for the CAL flying, then I would say it is a safe assumption that they were towards the bottom of the barrel. HK would walk over his dying mother for a dime. That guy is a lousy, filthly POS.