Leave your regional for ULCC?
 

Spirit now has a minimum TT of 2000 hours. I'm not sure what Frontier has as minimum quals. Anyone going to Spirit or Frontier instead of upgrading at your regional? Or do you think most guys are staying to get their PIC time so they have a chance at a legacy?

I am staying at my regional for the PIC time. PIC time is valuable in case you ever want to progress to anywhere be it 121, 135 or 91. SIC on an A320 is still just SIC.

Seconded. With the upgrade time being as low as it currently is at select regionals, I would rather stay and become a regional captain rather than becoming a Bus FO.

Yup not going to do that.

It will be attractive to some, especially as the regional model fails. A320 type and sic is more valuable than being just another cfi with rj type and sic time.

Additionally, many are being hired at legacies now without tpic. It helps, but its not everything it used to be.

The consensus among friends seems to be that an LCC jump is best if you're stuck as perma-FO, already have 1000 PIC, or it means an end to commuting.

Exactly. Once I get my dose of 1000 tpic I will weigh my options at an LCC. But upgrade is right around the corner for me.

If I was an FO at a company like Envoy or XJT and my upgrade was more than 2 years away, I would leave to an LCC.

Since I recently upgraded at my regional I am not considering any other LLCs. A temporary paycut and lack of building additional PIC is just not worth it to me especially since I live in base.

Not to mention you lose all those wonderful mainline travel bennies!

Would have taken me 5 years to make what I made as an RJ captain at a ULCC. Unless the ship is about to go under water, stay with it if you are a captain.