What Regional lets your work the least?
 

Hello-

I have always wanted to fly and do something with business at the same time. I have had an offer from a business that would let me do this. However, my question is what regional will let you fly the least and still remain employed? Also, how much do they require you to fly? My theory is work in business (and bring home enough money to actually support myself) until I get upgraded to captain. Then I figure I will start flying more.

Thanks!

I think they'll all let you fly the least and remain unemployed. :D

Do you want to go airlines? If not, why not look at some cargo gigs? Flying a Caravan/Navajo nightly, while working your day job during the day, might be the easiest way to make that schedule work.

If you want to go airlines, you'll need one with very aggressive trip trading/dropping available, but that's going to be very hard to do until you're senior enough to be off reserve. On reserve and working another job, even in base? Good luck.

I think you mean employed, not unemployed.

Yes, made the switch thanks.

Simple. The one where you gain seniority the quickest. And unless you have a cyrstal ball that predicts the future, its a crap shoot anywhere you go.

I didn't fly much on reserve when I was at Comair. Good luck getting on with them though.

The one that lets you live in base and has decent work rules - especially on reserve.

For instance, I work at Eagle, live in base and am on reserve. I am home MOST nights, fly as little as I can (often 30-40 hours/month), and try to always give away my overnights to commuters. The result? I too work a second job at home that is flexible enough that I can make it work with flying.

This sounds almost perfect. How senior are you on reserve? Is this something you could do as a new hire? Could it be done if you didn't live on base or would that be too hard? I don't need to be home every night. I could probably do a few three day trips a month.

SkyWest ASE. Block 22, credit 83 home every day. Bid hard lines. (obviously most crappy lines is 80 block for 83 credit with only 15 days off)

How low time are you, lowtimepilot?

Most regionals have minimum total times required for upgrade.