Originally Posted by
whtever
There's no way I would go to RAH. Quality of life should be your goal. Consider consistent scheduled 10-14 hour duty days, 5-7 legs a day, rarely is an overnight longer than 9-11 hours and with mx/wx/crew cancelations, your pay will suffer. To each their own, good luck!
That's a false statement, the quality of life at RAH is better then what you have described. My roommate is an FO who was hired in July of 2012, he went to the Shuttle certificate. I believe that he was only on reserve for two to three weeks. He consistently has around 13 to 16 days off per month and he rarely will fly five legs in one day. Most days are 2 to 3 legs. His only complaint was the first year pay. With the growth that is occurring over at RAH, I would say that you should go there over Express Jet. IMHO.....
That's a pretty fair description of life on the 170, which is the real reason to prefer it over the 145, the schedules are better.
On the 145 you'll have a lot more lines that start at 0500-0600 and end at 2000-2400. Probably 80% or more of the lines on the 145 are uncommutable on both ends. Two of 4 days will be 10-13:30 in duty with 8-10 hours of rest. Most four days will have one long overnight when the trip switches from morning flying to evening flying.
Most 145 guys get 13-15 days off a month. You'll usually need to be in the top 20% relative seniority to hold 16 with any regularity. Only the top 2-4 in each base can hold the high time day trips that yield 17-18 days off. When you take vacation, because of the crappy virtual credit you get on PBS you can add only about 2 days off to whatever you could normally hold, while being charged 18 hours of PDO's, which is why most just call off sick instead of bidding vacation.
QOL really is crap here. And you'll credit on average 85-90 hours a month once off RSV. Whereas at XJT you can work the system and credit over 100, impossible to do here.
Check out RAHContractNow.org for more info. I'd really highly recommend XJT.