Originally Posted by Laxrox43
Colgan doesn't neccesarilly have a 'flow through" program with CAL. They call it "preferential hiring."
My good buddy has a letter of rec from the director of flight ops at CAL. Would that be considered "preferential hiring"? You wanna know what he told my friend? DON'T FLY A TURBOPROP! Yep! Get into a jet ASAP!
Take a step back and realize that odds are some of those colganites will get picked up other places. I saw a post a few months back that listed the guys in one of CAL's new hire classes - the two colgan guys had 5000+ TT. Even flying 1000/hrs year, you're talking 4 years or so at colgan. Ouch.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great place for the 500TT guy. But that's about it.