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Originally Posted by BajtheJino  Thats the lamest excuse I've ever heard. Thats like someone saying it's okay to work for Gojets if you don't mind stabbing your fellow pilots in the back. Working for Great Mistakes says to people "Hey, I don't give a flip about anything. I'll fly in that right seat for peanuts and a banana just so I can tell people I swallowed my pride, lived below the poverty line and took one so I could fly a turbine powered aircraft"
I've not settled for less though I took the 135 route and started out VFR, moved to IFR and have always made a damn fine living at it.
People should remember there is more to aviation than Flight Instructing (which is an honest profession that professionals can make a good living doing) and regionals that can still get them to their final career destinations. |
To my knowledge Great Lakes is not an alter ego airline. They also fly 19 seat turbo props instead of 70 seat regional jets. I dont see how you can compare the two. Also when you upgrade in six months you are not making $15 an hour. It goes to $26, which is $5 more an hour than first year people at Colgan. What I said was objective, not lame. Again thats of course if they waited until they have a good amount of hours until they sent a resume so they can upgrade when the time comes. I can see it's not your thing, but to many it can be a smart move. They fly props so no one can say they save SJS. They have the magic pic hours, and start thinking about a major or whatever that much sooner. They just don't make crap. They have taken no ones flying away. At least no more than any other regional is doing these days. In my eyes its a clean move.