Originally Posted by
PilotJ3
If you just want to stay on the west coast go to Skywest...
Now, Eagle it will be in a interesting position in the next six months. Why???
Flow thru will resume soon, and once AA starts hiring there are 824 pilots with preferential hiring. After those 824 goes, all the pilots hired before Oct 11, 2011 have also preferential hiring.
So, if they want to hire 2,500 in the next 5 years like they said last month, 1,250 of those pilots have to be from American Eagle. We have 3,100 pilots in our seniority list, so I guess that our upgrade time will go down quickly in the next 5 years. Also you have to consider those pilots that will leave to somewhere else in the next couple of years.
In my personal opinion, I just started my 3rd year at Eagle and I'm very happy here. I started around being #2900 in out seniority list, and right now I'm in the 2400ish. That's a lot of movement in 2 years, considering we've been in Ch 11 for one whole year.
First year sucks wherever regional you go.
I am on the same boat at Eagle, been here for 2 years and I am in the high 2,400s. If I was at SKW, RAH or most other regionals I wouldn't be as high on the seniority list. We have our issues at Eagle but taking the management out is a good company. With the movement we should have in the coming months we should see good things for the folks who been here 2-3 years as schedules improve and that upgrade start looking attainable, the question is how are going to be able to staff the airline and how many airframes we will have. Now if eagle management makes some positive announcements and we flow guys to AA we will see more applicants. Now with that said go to SKW, don't commute to ORD or DFW for eagle stay out west as your QOL will be much better specially since you are military and probably will be aircraft commander before captain at eagle or SKW