Originally Posted by What

The preliminary Vacancy/Displacement bid has the most junior Captain in SJU with a hire date of Dec 06, a 5 year upgrade (for the time being)!

Originally Posted by ERJF15

4yrs 11ms to be exact

Originally Posted by Boomer

Real Comair numbers...

DTW CRJ 50 = 14 years
CVG CRJ 70/90 = 19 years

The best part? 80% of our captains are either maxed out on the 18-year pay scale, or back on First Officer pay. Thanks Delta.

Originally Posted by GT ATCS

Here's my story. I am a controller at a fairly decent sized approach control in the mid atlantic coast. I have been working airplanes for 36 years. I have an ATP, FCC restricted radio telephone operators permit. I have 2325 hours. I am pilot in command Cessna 421, about 500 hours. I have SIC Type Rating in a King Air 350, 545 hrs in the plane, have not flown it since 2007 when our company got rid of it. I have SIC Type Rating in a Citation 750, with about 250 hours. I go to Flight Safety for recurrent training every year in the 421 since 1999. I have a 4 year degree. I don't fly alot, but I can definitely keep the airplane right side up. What do you guys think out there about my chances are of getting hired by a regional are? I can handle the wages because I will have a great pension from the FAA. I know it will not be layovers in Miami or Los Angeles for 36 hours, or making $300,000.00. I understand that and it does not bother me. I am 54 now and it doesn't faze me that the captain will probably considerably younger than me.

Originally Posted by ShyGuy

Sweet Jezus! And I assume you are talking most bottom barrel Captain on reserve? Yikes!

Originally Posted by Boomer

Keep this in mind if you want to:

A) ...raise the bar for all regional pilots,

Originally Posted by TBucket

Yeah, you saw what happened to the TSA guys when they tried that.