Regional or Corporate?

[CapnVegetto]

An MEI is pretty useful, if you're around an FBO where people buy Seneca's etc. B/c most of the time those guys will have to do 25 hours or so with an MEI in the right seat as an 'insurance check out' on their new bird. I got about 50 hours of multi that way.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

It all depends on who you work for....

I've done both 121 and 91 corporate. I didn't have one of those cake 91 jobs making $100k plus a year and flying 5 days a month, but it wasn't the worst job out there either...it was somewhere in the middle I guess. After 3 and a half years there I left to go 121, and so far I have been happy with my decision. All I can say is that corporate flying is very diverse....you cannot lump it all in one category as if its the same at every company. There are really really good 91 jobs out there with great pay, great benefits, nice aircraft, lots of days off, where you basically have to pinch yourself everyday to see if its really true. Then, across the street there can be another 91 outfit flying the same type of plane that is a living hell to work for. You have no life, no schedule, you're underpaid, and your 4 days off a month are spent sweeping floors and cutting grass at the hangar.

On the same token, the same can be said for airlines. Although I work for a regional airline, it is a reputable one with excellent maintenance and a good pilot contract with plenty of work rules. However, there are other airlines out there where every airplane you fly will have at least 5 MEL's, you will be junior manned at least 3 times a month, you will be cheated out of your pay, and overall treated like nothing more than a liability. If you're just building experience, do whatever you have to do and go elsewhere, but where you end up in the long term is all going to depend on the quality of the operation itself, not so much whether its "corporate" or "airline". Anyway, thats my 2 cents.