Ok, man. Take it personally much? Trying to tell him to educate himself on it. I was looking at making a move to mesa too, but the potential of being stuck as an FO for this reason has prevented me from doing so. Especially on with their current contract. Who knows, it could work out just fine.

 

That's not "educating" that could happen anywhere including Silver.

 

Just remember we are facing a looming Pilot Shortage....

 

Who owns the 175s? United.

 

A million times, this.

 

United has a pretty good thing going with Mesa. I can't envision our partnership diminishing anytime soon.

But to the OP, yeah, stay where you are. Turbine PIC is turbine PIC.

 

Unless they can't fulfill the flying. That has happened in the past from what I understand.

 

I worked at silver. I learned a lot and got a lot out of it. I will never forget many of the people there. That being said, for once the grass is greener. It's green as ****. The training department there is a joke. Management and scheduling deal with pilots by threatening and through arguments. They once told me they changed my showtime in the computer to an hour later so that I wouldn't duty out. This was at the end of the day not the beginning. They will violate you in more ways than one just to save their own skin. Leave now and be happy you did. People there are great but there are better options. And from the word on the street, many RJ FO's are getting picked up by majors with no pic but there are countless people with lots of pic prop time that can't get a call from allegiant let alone the big three. Make your own decision but I would leave. Maybe not Mesa but somewhere.

 

As a former Silver pilot I'll echo what Chris said... Don't walk run from Silver. You won't realize how terrible it is there until you're gone. Look around your fellow captains and FO's there and see how many are leaving for a Major or LCC. Very very few where as my time at Horizon and Skywest I've met more FO's moving on to greener pastures than Captains at Silver. Commuting sucks but living in a Silver base is worse than commuting to a "better" regional. As far as Mesa... Well you'll be making the same as you did at Silver only difference is the equipment you fly.

 

It's not at a regional. I'll commute to a legacy carrier any day vs being based at home at a regional.