Originally Posted by SAABDriver
Has the company started to hire FO's for the 190? The pay is a little disapointing. I always thought I could leave the regionals with a pay raise----even to the right seat.
As it stands now my pay would decrease by about 15k to start in the right seat of the 190.
Do you see the competitive hire times coming down? I find it hard to believe that someone with 2000hrs PIC Jet would want to go back to $37 an hour.
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We have been told that new hires will be given the choice of the A320 or the E190 when hired. So.... Don't pick the E190 and go with the A320. That will fix your pay problem. Upgrade to Capt will be 2-4 years. E190 would be lower pay and upgrade to Capt would be 1-1.5 years (since we plan to upgrade 143 A320 FOs to E190 Capt)
As for competive times. I would think that it will still take 3-4000 hours of PIC to get hired. 2000 is a little low (depending on your background, USAF/USN/USMC fighter guys would most likely compete with 2000 PIC).
Good luck,
Just my opinion....
FNG