Career Cross Roads

Hubbs said:
If I were you I'd definitely be applying to at least see if you have a choice to make.

Also, while you might have a great QOL, low 70s is pretty bad for a sovereign.
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Yeah i know its not great. Its certainly a trading pay for QOL job. Also at the time it seemed great coming from 3rd year regional pay in 2014.

Thanks everyone for the responses. I feel pretty good about at least throwing my name in the hat and whatever happens, happens.
 
FlySooner9 said:
Yeah regionals are out of the question, unless I were to be unemployed tomorrow. I'm thinking I'll apply and however long it takes for a call and a successful interview so be it. In the mean time I'll enjoy my current gig.
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This probably isn't what you want to hear but if you want to fly for a major then you should go to a regional now. I've been a 190 captain at American over 2 years now and have flown with exactly 2 guys who were corporate pilots when they were hired. And they were 135, not 91.

Sounds like you probably have around 2500 hours? That's going to be way low these days for a civilian. If you hang where you are I doubt you'll get a call anytime soon.

I left a corp job like yours that paid more to go to a regional and make 30k. Year and a half later I got hired at a major. Have to sacrifice sometimes.
 
I have over 1,000 hours pt 121 time all ready. Flew 3 years at a regional. I get your point but I'd rather wait and sit my turn then do that all over again when it's a crap shoot if it'd even help.
 
FlySooner9 said:
I have over 1,000 hours pt 121 time all ready. Flew 3 years at a regional. I get your point but I'd rather wait and sit my turn then do that all over again when it's a crap shoot if it'd even help.
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I had 800 121 hours before being in corporate for 6 years. Started applying and only got some interest from the lower tier majors, absolutely nothing from the legacies after a year of trying. I'm at a regional now to up my chances. Unfortunately at this time, they don't care about your prior 121 time. If you have any question you can PM me, I made the tough decision and left a part 91 gig paying 6 figures to go to Endeavor and I'm actually really happy, even with commuting to NY. The regionals today are not what they used to be in order to attract pilots. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a means to an end and I am hoping to move up in under 1-1.5 years, but it's not a bad place to be.
 
TrustMeI'maPilot said:
I had 800 121 hours before being in corporate for 6 years. Started applying and only got some interest from the lower tier majors, absolutely nothing from the legacies after a year of trying. I'm at a regional now to up my chances. Unfortunately at this time, they don't care about your prior 121 time. If you have any question you can PM me, I made the tough decision and left a part 91 gig paying 6 figures to go to Endeavor and I'm actually really happy, even with commuting to NY. The regionals today are not what they used to be in order to attract pilots. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a means to an end and I am hoping to move up in under 1-1.5 years, but it's not a bad place to be.
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when you say lower tier are you talking like Frontier/Spirit?
 
Corporate aviation honestly us a dig eat dog world. I was working at a smaller management company and it was a great job. I was paid well and had a great QOL. Then the owner of the plane passed and the plane was sold. The company had nowhere else to place me. So I was terminated. Days later I found another job and took a hefty paycut. That particular company was a bit better wit job security and I was on larger account. That was up until early December when the customer decided to split ways with this company. Fortunately, the flight crew went with the planes and I have been offered a position. The new management company is quite large and has great opportunities inside and outside if the flight deck. My plans are to stay here for a while. I gues I won't know if I've made the right decision until I turn 65.
 
statusseeker1 said:
Apply now. Keep updating. 4000 TT is a realistic number to get a call with a very clean background.
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Thats sort of about the time i was thinking to have a shot. Although i do know people personally that have gotten hired at UAL with less and zero TPIC.
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
This probably isn't what you want to hear but if you want to fly for a major then you should go to a regional now. I've been a 190 captain at American over 2 years now and have flown with exactly 2 guys who were corporate pilots when they were hired. And they were 135, not 91.
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I'll have to second this.

I've only flown with one person in the past 6 months that had a corporate background. Outside of that, it has all been flow through pilots.
 
TrustMeI'maPilot said:
I had 800 121 hours before being in corporate for 6 years. Started applying and only got some interest from the lower tier majors, absolutely nothing from the legacies after a year of trying. I'm at a regional now to up my chances. Unfortunately at this time, they don't care about your prior 121 time. If you have any question you can PM me, I made the tough decision and left a part 91 gig paying 6 figures to go to Endeavor and I'm actually really happy, even with commuting to NY. The regionals today are not what they used to be in order to attract pilots. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a means to an end and I am hoping to move up in under 1-1.5 years, but it's not a bad place to be.
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So then why wouldn't he just go to Spirit or Frontier and then a legacy......skip the regional garbage altogether.
 
Apophis said:
So then why wouldn't he just go to Spirit or Frontier and then a legacy......skip the regional garbage altogether.
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People can do whatever they want, but just a little bit of research will show some regionals have a better total package than a place like Frontier. I'm assuming you've never worked at one?
 
That first year pay at Spirit would be hard to deal with. I think id almost be better off going the street captain route at a regional if i had to do more pt 121 before the legacy's called.
 
FlySooner9 said:
That first year pay at Spirit would be hard to deal with. I think id almost be better off going the street captain route at a regional if i had to do more pt 121 before the legacy's called.
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Exactly, except for the street captain part, I think Gojet is the only one offering that.
 
TrustMeI'maPilot said:
Then why are you in a thread telling someone to go to Frontier over so called "garbage" regionals if you have no actual experience wth them?
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I don't have experience with a lot of things in life....but I know enough about them to know I wouldn't want to try. You're at a regional and say you enjoy life. That's great. I think it would be silly for SoonerPilot to take a QOL and pay hit to go to a regional and you disagree. We are both allowed our own opinions on the matter.
 
Apophis said:
I don't have experience with a lot of things in life....but I know enough about them to know I wouldn't want to try. You're at a regional and say you enjoy life. That's great. I think it would be silly for SoonerPilot to take a QOL and pay hit to go to a regional and you disagree. We are both allowed our own opinions on the matter.
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Of course no one would tell him to go to a regional just because. But he asked how to get to a major. That's why he should go to a regional.
 
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