Originally Posted by
dartagnan
the good companies are of course netjet, AA,...but it takes years to get a job with them.
it is a job where you stay poor for years
If you're thinking of NetJets US, that company had FO wages and early-years CA wages that challenged regionals for impoverishment, until threatening labor action and the formation of a new union make the carrier choke up some loot. There's abundant history of this long struggle around on the web. It's not a place where the wages of the pilots is reflected in the shimmering eye-popping wealth of the PAX. I don't know much about NJI or NJE.
If you're thinking about eventually getting on with a US-based legacy carrier such as American Airlines, be advised that these once-proud, powerful companies, in the post-9/11 world, have the habit of going into court to break labor agreements and abrogate pension obligations (not only for pilots). In the States, a company can appeal to the court to transfer its unfunded pension obligations to the American taxpayer under the terms of a law called ERISA. Or, simply say not pay.
This drives wages and other costs down as the carrier struggles for breath, drowning in a sea of expensive fuel while they outsouce bits and pieces of their route structure to "
regionals" and "
feeder-communters" not covered by the collective bargaining agreements because they were founded after specific effective dates.
Complicated, profoundly non-glamorous environment in which to work.