Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
You'd be insane if you think working at jetBlue is worse than working at a regional.
JetBlue and ALPA has an AIP!
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
Eh, depends. Being based at home means everything to some people. If I ever lost everything and had to go back to flying for a living, I’d be begging Endeavor for a job so I could be based at home. Commuting to Boston? No thanks.
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
I’ve got friends who have been at Allegiant for over a decade. They love being home to tuck their kids in to bed every night or drive them to school every morning. I can’t say that they’ve made a poor decision. I don’t need to fly the biggest airplane or make the most money to be happy.
Just go to work, fly as little as possible, be home for the things the kiddo needs me home for, and make a decent living for the family. Anything more than that would just be feeding my ego at the family’s expense.
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Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
I have a former student who said the same thing. For some reason she didn’t take it well when I pointed out that that’s all very well until mx doesn’t find the cotter pin that the MRO left out of the elevator and you never get to tuck your kids in or take them to school again.
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
Could happen anywhere
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
You just said if yourself, the MRO. Allegiant wasn't the only airline using them.
Cloud Surfer
All Roads lead to Trantor
Allegiant seems to have cleaned up its act anyway....
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
No, but either a) Allegiant had bad luck or b) other airlines do a better job of auditing work done and catch this stuff. I’m not super up on the way 121 paperwork is done, but the investigation made it sound like a halfway decent QA by AGT before accepting the plane would have shown that that task was completed halfassedly.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Until they close ATL, which they've done before.
With your background experience, I'd try Delta and Southwest for ATL.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
I’d rather contract HIV than work for Southwest. As for Delta, I’m not “tier 1 material.”
But thankfully I shouldn’t ever have to worry about this anyway. My point was only that different people prioritize different things, and someone isn’t necessarily crazy for choosing to stay at a regional.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
Very good point. I plan to stay at Comair for life as I live in CVG.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
Lots of people have watched their airlines disappear over the years. Both at the regionals and the majors.
Baronman
Well-Known Member
But if you're making 260K instead of 280K it's worse than a regional!!
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
Whether or not that was intentional, I don't know but telling the former Air Tran guy to apply at SWA is hilarious.
JDean3204
Well-Known Member
I hope to one day move on, but sure hope that after I get my degree and some PIC time I’ll even get called for an interview. Got some things on my record that needs some ‘splainin. With that in mind, I would not be devastated with a career at a regional as there is no way in heck I’d make a 120k a year doing anything else in my life that gives me 14 plus days off a month. I could do with not flying the turboprop after a few years tho, the guys I fly with that have been on the short routes with big weed whackers on the wings seem beat down.
CRJDriver
Well-Known Member
The LGB base reps voted No, solely based on the implementation timeline (which is ridiculous), not necessarily on the TA itself.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
"We think this will take too long, so we're going to vote to make it longer because we're mad."
Pilot logic.