Colorado Based - DEN or PHX based
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Ouch. I can’t imagine commuting from Crested Butte. Right now as an FO you can get COS at Skywest in about a month or 2 out of training. DEN a month or two later. You’ll be effectively living in Detroit or Chicago until then though. I had very little time at home and I live just over an hour from DEN. You can’t fly in at 2300 after your last day of reserve then drive to Gunnison.
Captain at Skywest in DEN is 4-5 years depending on aircraft. 3 years in COS.
PHX is even more senior at OO, but if the commute to PHX is reasonable, then I’d look at Compass.
Captain at Skywest in DEN is 4-5 years depending on aircraft. 3 years in COS.
PHX is even more senior at OO, but if the commute to PHX is reasonable, then I’d look at Compass.
I start commuting to Moab utah in April to fly 135 with Redtail this summer. Then will look for something over the winter to get the time to apply next winter/spring a year from now.
As someone that was in a corporate job with 80-100% travel before opening a business in Crested Butte - the travel is engrained. Know it's different but many benefits to where I live and have a business to help support going back to aviation.
Just gotta go with what opportunity presents itself once I have the hrs
Thanks all to the input.
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As to your conundrum, the good thing is (assuming you want to move on to a legacy) after awhile you could do one or two trips a month and be done with it. Make the challenge of the commute easier to handle. Even at a regional with a little seniority you could stack a couple of trips back to back to limit the commute.
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