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Old 05-24-2019, 01:55 PM
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Add GoJet and TransStates to that list.
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Add GoJet and TransStates to that list.
Trans states has had a few hit 1000 in yr
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Old 05-24-2019, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DownInPetaluma View Post
This is the type of mentality that kills any QOL potential for the regionals.

How fast can I build hours; how quickly can I upgrade?

Hint: I don’t want to be in the back of your plane.
Sort of depends upon if you want a long happy career at a regional or would prefer to just get on with it and get to a major. Everyone makes choices...

Hint: these guys will be in the left seat at the major when you finally make it to the right there and you will lag them in seniority for your entire career there. The same as those who wait to flow will lag the guys junior to them who make it first as OTS hires.
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Originally Posted by 42ER View Post
Air whisky.

Just talked to a FO today that timed out on his 1000/365. I don’t even want to know how he did it....
Hahaha, if they can get you through training in 6 months. Some go from systems straight to cpt/sims, others have a 3-4 month gap with no rhyme or reason to the madness. Once you get on the line (off reserve) expect to fly 90 hours a month but this is a crap shoot as anywhere from 10-50% fail training. Also, you may or may not fly on reserve... also total luck of the draw. Some months reserves fly 70-80 hours, other time they fly 5-10 hours.
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Old 05-24-2019, 08:52 PM
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Pick a regional with good snack basket options.. Live in their junior base and you're good to go.
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Old 05-24-2019, 08:59 PM
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Skywest CRJ is about as fast as it gets, assuming you aren't trying to get a west coast base.
Yeah, you might go to OO and just move to their junior base.. You'll get hours quick and probably upgrade asap to the same base. It will just be easier. And bonus advice, wherever that junior base is (msp? dtw?) just embrace the location.. Do what the locals do. Try ice fishing and buy hockey gear.. Get the local jerseys and go to games. See how long you can fake the accent with the locals. Complain about the traffic and how things "aren't like they used to be" when you are in uber cars.

If you're not from California.. Stay away.. You won't like the sticker shock of prices here.. Unless you're willing to rent a couch like my buddy (you know who you are!) or live in a van behind an In n Out (you know who you are too!). On first year pay, you'll be able to afford the nicest tent to live in under the 405.
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Sort of depends upon if you want a long happy career at a regional or would prefer to just get on with it and get to a major. Everyone makes choices...

Hint: these guys will be in the left seat at the major when you finally make it to the right there and you will lag them in seniority for your entire career there. The same as those who wait to flow will lag the guys junior to them who make it first as OTS hires.
And when you build all this time and still don't get called (like the other 18,000 who have applied) and you're stuck at a sh*t regional.. then what?
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Originally Posted by Varsity View Post
And when you build all this time and still don't get called (like the other 18,000 who have applied) and you're stuck at a sh*t regional.. then what?
Then you end up like this guy

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Old 05-25-2019, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Varsity View Post
And when you build all this time and still don't get called (like the other 18,000 who have applied) and you're stuck at a sh*t regional.. then what?
How do you get stuck at a sh*t regional? Never heard of the thirteenth amendment?

You can either USE the regional for your purposes or let them use you for theirs.

Rather work for Skywest? Get your 1000 TSIC and 1000 TSIC at wherever you can get it the fastest and THEN go work for OO.

Industry Experience Credit: Have experience with an FAR Part 121 Carrier?
Upgrade Your Career and get paid for your experience. Join SkyWest’s team of professional aviators and don’t worry about pay – we will start your pay at a year-for-year match! That means that every year you have worked at a FAR Part 121 carrier counts towards your compensation and benefits (up to a 10 year rate). Plus, we’re offering a $7,500 bonus for experienced pilots. Come work for the best regional in the industry!
You haven’t lost a friggin thing. You got a type rating and a bonus from someone like TSA (currently advertising a $60k signing bonus), get your thousand hours, upgrade to captain with $68/hr year two pay, and once you have your magic 1000TPIC, THEN you can go to OO, pick up ANOTHER type rating, a $7500 bonus, and start work there as a Third Year FO at $55 an hour and work THERE until you get the call.

Or go to Republic and pick up a $17500 bonus (and another type rating) and start at year one.

You seriously think these regionals won’t pick you up if you have 2000 hrs of 121 time from TSA? You seriously think a type rating and 2000 hrs of 121 time, half of that PIC, is going to HURT you careerwise?

It isn’t gonna hurt you near as much as going somewhere that you spend a year on reserve and fly 250 hrs, that’s for sure.

The point is, DRIVE THE PROCESS, don’t be passive.

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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
How do you get stuck at a sh*t regional? Never heard of the thirteenth amendment?

You can either USE the regional for your purposes or let them use you for theirs.

Rather work for Skywest? Get your 1000 TSIC and 1000 TSIC at wherever you can get it the fastest and THEN go work for OO.



You haven’t lost a friggin thing. You got a type rating and a bonus from someone like TSA (currently advertising a $60k signing bonus), get your thousand hours, upgrade to captain with $68/hr year two pay, and once you have your magic 1000TPIC, THEN you can go to OO, pick up ANOTHER type rating, a $7500 bonus, and start work there as a Third Year FO at $55 an hour and work THERE until you get the call.

Or go to Republic and pick up a $17500 bonus (and another type rating) and start at year one.

You seriously think these regionals won’t pick you up if you have 2000 hrs of 121 time from TSA? You seriously think a type rating and 2000 hrs of 121 time, half of that PIC, is going to HURT you careerwise?

It isn’t gonna hurt you near as much as going somewhere that you spend a year on reserve and fly 250 hrs, that’s for sure.

The point is, DRIVE THE PROCESS, don’t be passive.
Are you a motivational speaker on your time off?
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