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Old 01-25-2013 | 06:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Moonwolf
Yes you are off. There is absolutely NO pilot shortage. When a decent job comes up, pilots will come out from the woodwork to take it. Rah is not decent, sub par at best.
Sub par is what you should look for when choosing a regional. Mainline will not let you have your cake and eat it too. If you get a leading edge contract with a good pay scale and lots of soft money you will shoot yourself in the foot and be back on the street after your company loses bids for flying and eventually shuts down and you will have to start over at the company that took your flying. The worst is the best! Put your time in and move on.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Karma
Sub par is what you should look for when choosing a regional. Mainline will not let you have your cake and eat it too. If you get a leading edge contract with a good pay scale and lots of soft money you will shoot yourself in the foot and be back on the street after your company loses bids for flying and eventually shuts down and you will have to start over at the company that took your flying. The worst is the best! Put your time in and move on.
True in most cases but SkyWest has been around 40yrs, never furloughed and has turned a profit just about all 40 of those years while maintaining decent pay/qol. For what it's worth, there are exceptions.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Slats
True in most cases but SkyWest has been around 40yrs, never furloughed and has turned a profit just about all 40 of those years while maintaining decent pay/qol. For what it's worth, there are exceptions.
Sounds like Comair, oh wait.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Forman
Sounds like Comair, oh wait.
True, but one caveat, SKW isn't owned by any mainline partner. But ya never know what/can happen in this crazy industry
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Old 01-25-2013 | 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Karma
Sub par is what you should look for when choosing a regional. Mainline will not let you have your cake and eat it too. If you get a leading edge contract with a good pay scale and lots of soft money you will shoot yourself in the foot and be back on the street after your company loses bids for flying and eventually shuts down and you will have to start over at the company that took your flying. The worst is the best! Put your time in and move on.
Put your time in a move on? To what? When is the last time a major has hired a Significant number? How long is the upgrade at rah?
You have the type of mentality that suits most brickyrad f/os
Thanks for keeping my view rah pilots correct.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 07:25 AM
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Air Wisconsin would be one of those exceptions as well. Air Wisconsin would be the only regional I would even consider going to. It's still not great pay but I think it's the best out there as far as a regional goes. I would still be worried considering they have probably the oldest fleet of airplanes and no one seems to want 50 seaters. They are also the highest paid with the best work rules. That combination has spelled doom for other regionals.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Moonwolf
Put your time in a move on? To what? When is the last time a major has hired a Significant number? How long is the upgrade at rah?
You have the type of mentality that suits most brickyrad f/os
Thanks for keeping my view rah pilots correct.
His view is part of the minority. Most pilots at RAH want to leave the company better than when they found it (CBA-wise). If most pilots thought like he does, we would have accepted the company's LBF offer and ended 5+ years of negotiations.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 08:30 AM
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you mean like the eagle pilots did.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by RJ Pilot
Is that you TG?
Nah, Captain Tony works for Skywest.
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Old 01-25-2013 | 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Moonwolf
Put your time in a move on? To what? When is the last time a major has hired a Significant number? How long is the upgrade at rah?
You have the type of mentality that suits most brickyrad f/os
Thanks for keeping my view rah pilots correct.
There has been a decent amount of hiring over the last couple of years. As far as last decade, why even join an industry that you knew was stagnant and carried 6-10 year upgrade if you're just going to complain about it? I left the industry after somebody flew an airplane into a building and increased my QOL by avoiding the dreaded decade. A lot of the recent RAH hiring has not been because of upgrades but because of FO's leaving for majors so why does upgrade time even matter? TPIC is a dinosaur requirement. I'm not against RAH getting a contract, I'm just poking fun at how the whole industry works in a trolling/sarcastic kind of way.
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