Oh crap. I figured you'd see second year pay at month 13. Thanks for the info.

Nope, your "pay date" for the rest of your career starts at projected completion of training. And with the backups on SIMs people are seeing that projected date 3 to 4 months after first day of INDOC. The upside is that you will have two paid months at home awaiting SIMs.

Thanks again. What's the credit (or gross income) while home not working?

AA will contribute to your 401(k) during first year if you come from a Wholly Owned regional.

After taxes ~3000 twice a month. The bonus is that you get an extra ~25 hours over guarantee for completing your ETHOS training. So that is not counting that.

While in training, from day one, you get paid Monthly Average Line Value for your bid status.
Say you get assigned MIA/320/FO, you will get paid whatever the MALV for MIA/320/FO is that month.
It's usually somewhere in the mid-80s

So not Skywest

OIC .. SkyWester here. No joy. lol

first year aside, you will get what? 13 years or so of 16% direct contribution of your HIGHER income at AA....that will be significantly more than Skywest i assume...if you avg $200,000 in your time here(probably a low-ball figure too) that's $416,000...AA despite all the naysayers is better than a regional(I came from a regional, not a wholly owned).

The numbers are definitely there. QOL seems like a mixed bag from what I'm seeing.

Thanks everyone for the insight and ideas.