WSurf
The Smack Down!
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15,000 retirements in 10 years at the big 3 legacies. That is significant, even with 50 seaters leaving. AA still wants someone to fly more E175s, and if Eagle won't do it, someone else will. That is just moving equipment around.
My advice to all RJ FOs. If you can't upgrade to Capt soon, apply to a LCC like JB. In the near future, LCCs will hire mostly RJ FOs because they won't be as marketable as RJ Capts with PIC, and may stick around longer and upgrade before they start looking around if things aren't "great." Right now, apply to JB, Frontier, Spirit, Virgin America, Sun Country, etc. If you like it, great. If not, a legacy would LOVE to poach you most likely. They know it costs a competitor money too to train a newhire to replace you and upgrade another if you leave as a Capt. I think you will have more options if you go to a LCC if you are an FO now with no upgrade in sight. Good luck. Any questions, PM me. I can give advice, you decide.
Bye Bye---General Lee
Republic doesn't need to get caught up in the pay rates as much as they should those crappy work rules. Work rules is the good soft money you make...... And the company knows that!! They'd give you a 30% to keep those crappy work rules.
It's already happening! JB will now most likely hire a 4 year RJ pilot knowing he doesn't have the PIC time to jump to one of the 4 bigs.
That's what none of the knuckleheads over here can possibly understand. Everyone here is wrapped around the axle demanding a 25K plus signing bonus and top pay rates. Those two things don't mean ******************** without the accompanying work rules. $300 an hour is nice but worthless if every other ********************ing leg gets cancelled. That nice signing bonus will go right back to the company when they just double or triple health care costs next year.