Recommended Regional to Fly For
03-11-2017, 03:48 PM
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Recommended Regional to Fly For
Okay, I know this is a loaded question and I expect a wide variety of responses. So here we go.....What is the best regional to fly for these days? I ask because I've been away from 121 flying for about 7 years and have been considering coming back. With only 12 years of airline shelf life left, I haven't decided if my regional time will be short lived or not. So I'm looking for both the short and long term answer.
03-11-2017, 04:12 PM
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Although I'm 1500 hours away from applying and getting hired by a regional, I've done my fair share of methodically sifting through the thousands of pages here (so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, this is simply what I have gathered from someone outside the industry looking to get in eventually). But it seems like the general consensus is that the best regional is more often than not the one that you can not commute to, barring the bottom of the barrel ones like Mesa, Gojets, and horizon
03-11-2017, 04:13 PM
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Commutable from ATL is the initial plan (may relocate later). Yes & no on flow. If I go short, then the flow is obviously a concern. But unfortunately I've seen where that planned short term stay can become very permanent. Regaining QOL is probably a bigger desire. I have the time to be a left seat hire, but that doesn't mean it would make sense because of greater impact to QOL. No huge preference on equipment.
03-11-2017, 04:16 PM
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Commutable from ATL is the initial plan (may relocate later). Yes & no on flow. If I go short, then the flow is obviously a concern. But unfortunately I've seen where that planned short term stay can become very permanent. Regaining QOL is probably a bigger desire. I have the time to be a left seat hire, but that doesn't mean it would make sense because of greater impact to QOL. No huge preference on equipment.
ATL is next to impossible to get to and from.
03-11-2017, 05:25 PM
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Although I'm 1500 hours away from applying and getting hired by a regional, I've done my fair share of methodically sifting through the thousands of pages here (so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, this is simply what I have gathered from someone outside the industry looking to get in eventually). But it seems like the general consensus is that the best regional is more often than not the one that you can not commute to, barring the bottom of the barrel ones like Mesa, Gojets, and horizon
03-11-2017, 05:36 PM
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