Originally Posted by
hough495
For those who work at USA Jet. how much flying is done in a month, typically?
40-60 hours a month... about 500/year. (400-600ish) You very rarely break guarantee... where you make the extra scratch is selling your days off and flying on them. Compared to 'Brand X' regional - esp. FO pay, they compensate you very well at USA Jet.
Originally Posted by
Flyjustin
I don't fly for USAJET. I did however go to EMU which does it's flight training out of YIP and I live in belleville. Having said that I do remember numerous time when I use to instruct out of there seeing USAJet DC9s take off and rotate on the thousand foot blocks or farther on the other end. I took a dispatch class in college and our instructor was a dispatcher at USA, she mentioned a lot of JANKEY stuff went on there that wasn't exactly SAFE. She also said for us to stay away ha.
And... I can see why someone would get comfortable at a regional and never want to leave. I love having an average of 2-3 short legs a day with long overnights in great hotels
I don't know about what happened in the past, but the flight operations are very safe... and the experience that you get is invaluable. The DC-9 is a rocketship, esp. bulked out (of plastic parts) for the latest and greatest Ford or GM.