hindsight2020
Active Member
Hey everyone, long time lurker here. Im facing a pretty tough decision coming up. My long term career goal is to fly for AAL, UAL, DAL, SWA, or FDX. I am currently a street captain at a regional airline. Quality of life is very poor right now due to commuting and of course being junior on reserve with no end in sight. (yes i know i did it to myself by being a street captain). The plus side is im building Turbine PIC at a pretty good clip. I currently have a little shy of 4,000TT and just a tad over 1,000 turbine PIC.
My decision is this: i have CJO's from both JetBlue and Frontier. I would still be commuting to both however Frontier would offer a very easy one leg commute and likely really improve my QOL. I like Jetblue but all of their bases would be a 2 leg commute for me so i cant really seeing myself going that route.
So basically
Option A:
stay at my regional
PROS: building PIC time, avoid having a stint at a company for less then a year on my resume
CONS: enduring a hard commute, bottom of the reserve list, poor overall QOL
Option B:
go to frontier
PROS: much easier commute, opportunity to hold a line fairly quickly, much better pay after year 1, a place i could likely spend a career should something happen in the industry and the music stops.
CONS: several months of not building my flight time, no PIC time for at least a few years, not necessarily where i want to spend my whole career.
Anyway just looking for some opinions on this situation. I feel like i could suck up option A for another 6-12 months but not anything beyond that so i guess if i chose option A id be hedging my bets on getting a shot at a legacy by then.
My decision is this: i have CJO's from both JetBlue and Frontier. I would still be commuting to both however Frontier would offer a very easy one leg commute and likely really improve my QOL. I like Jetblue but all of their bases would be a 2 leg commute for me so i cant really seeing myself going that route.
So basically
Option A:
stay at my regional
PROS: building PIC time, avoid having a stint at a company for less then a year on my resume
CONS: enduring a hard commute, bottom of the reserve list, poor overall QOL
Option B:
go to frontier
PROS: much easier commute, opportunity to hold a line fairly quickly, much better pay after year 1, a place i could likely spend a career should something happen in the industry and the music stops.
CONS: several months of not building my flight time, no PIC time for at least a few years, not necessarily where i want to spend my whole career.
Anyway just looking for some opinions on this situation. I feel like i could suck up option A for another 6-12 months but not anything beyond that so i guess if i chose option A id be hedging my bets on getting a shot at a legacy by then.