Let me count the ways...No regional is perfect and I have not worked at one so here is my personal opinion. I fly in alaska in the bush getting almost double what i would get here, but I don't like it. I live 4000 miles from home flying old beat up planes that are overflown. We fly a lot i fly 140/ month avg has been 160. I fly into crappy little places with crappy stuff on board. Everything we do is a pain, we always are at min fuel with very very few alternates available and I am tired of breathing o2 and wondering if the icing will get too bad that i won't make it through the area of 13000ft mea. Pinnacle is for me based in detroit, i live a 2 hour drive or 20 min flight away, they are nice jets, there are lots of new places to fly. The lower 48 is underated. they have a union and are trying for a better contract...i can't imagine it getting worse, but hey life goes on. I am looking at a place where people enjoy their job and the several i talked to love it. Not everyone does I understand that, but i know someone who barely works and makes 75,000 per year and complains its not enough. Life is good, have fun with this career if you can, I hope to get a call from them and they let me work for foodstamps, its what I do. Plus all the girls want to know if I fly a jet and if you try to make a turboprop into a jet engine...they aren't impressed
