Cmon man!! It’s a de-facto flow to the legacies!!🤣

I’m half serious actually.

-Base locations
-a growing company with a massive growth plan
-one of top 5 newest fleets in the world
-good crews
-soon to be less than 2 year upgrade
-never used non rev benefits because why? I make enough to buy a ticket with my pay that is…
-…better than regionals
-a new contract on the horizon that will further increase the pay above regionals
- as earthbound just mentioned we are basically a guaranteed interview with all legacies

Just how little do you think F9 pilots make? Just trying to gauge how uninformed you truly are.

I love when people compare us to regionals.... I have flown with a lot of CAs who haven't made less than 300k a year after upgrading. Home most nights, 16+ days off. I am not too sure where the whole, flying an RJ with mostly 3-4 day trips, 4-5 leg days a week making 180/hr as a CA is better.

Shoot ya I forgot to mention how many days I had at home last year. That was awesome

-the money only beats a regional if you are a captain, but even then there are regional LCA’s making $30-40K/month, obviously not the norm

-are you buying business class tickets overseas? Huge reason to be in this industry is for the benefits

- year 1-2 FO’s are making $150/hour+ at regionals, plus all the bonuses.. an additional $45K

- sooo you wouldn’t go to Delta cause they have the oldest fleet? SNJ syndrome is real

- guaranteed path to UA, Delta, or AA as a plan B.. and being a captain at a regional is a guaranteed interview at a major? Same as Frontier..

- the only reason I see to go to Frontier is for base location and if you can’t get to a major from your regional

- Atlas year 3 FO’s clearing 30K/month too flying a 747 all over the world

LOL

I stopped reading here. Be a little more subtle next time.

first year is $90+ at the regionals … same as Frontier, after year 1 all of them bring you up to captain pay once you hit 750-850 hours which is ~$150/hour at all the regionals. Frontier you get your modest pay raise each year until you upgrade which is over 3 years right now

The only pros I see for frontier are living in base in FL and upgrading to captain in 3 years, but honestly anyone whose under 40 is going to take the job at a Legacy when they call you, likely in less than 3 years

F9 QOL is near industry leading, with one caveat- that you live less than 30 minutes drive time to your base.

You just compared Atlas where you are gone A TON, to F9 where you are home a lot.

Yeah, different places have different pros and cons.

You know why you get brought to CA pay so quick? Cause they are bleeding captains and are junior manning FOs into upgrade.

Yes, 7 on 7 off or more and positive space business class seats to and from work. Captains there take in $500K+ doing that. So the fact about captains making a lot, well you can make the same at other airlines in the same amount of time on property. Frontier isn’t unique in that. Southwest you can make captain money as a FO

got it though, have to live in base and you are home a lot in exchange for that. That’s the big draw… just genuinely confused what the big reason to go to Frontier is now with regionals paying more and offering more in terms of benefits and a plan B to flow