Originally Posted by TheFly:1457117
***1. What are the family travel benefits like & when do they kick in? What carriers do they apply to (DAL, UAL, USA, etc)? ORD E170
2. What is a typical reserve work week like in the E170/175?
***3. How many days/nights are you actually where you are based in a typical week (line holders or when assigned a trip)?
4. How is senoirity assigned per class? Age, date of checkride, etc?
***5. Does anyone like it at RAH?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
Just a few modifications to the above questions. Thanks guys.
1. Again. Depends on the certificate, airplane, and base. If you are Shuttle ORD 170 you get Delta and terrible United benefits. If you are Republic ORD 170 you get AA travel which if it's the same as Chautauqua it will be useless.
2. A typical schedule on reserve means you are on call for 12 hours a day 4-5 days a week. Because staffing is incredibly thin you will be flying and deadheading (a lot of double deadheads across the country) to fly 1 leg. They will own you until midnight on the last day of reserve. You can expect to break guarantee every month on reserve but you will be exhausted and maybe credit 80 hours. As a line holder the trips are nice on the 170... Mostly 2-3 legs a day. But they still haven't finalized trips for AA so who knows that ORD 170 for Republic will look like.
3. Trips for line holders range from 1 day to 4 days. ORD 170 Republic is new so no way to answer this.
4. Once again assigned by age in class.
5. I tolerate this place but I'm looking to get out ASAP. There are very few people happy here. Nonetheless most of the crews are great outside of CMH and IND. The outstation kings and queens hate the hub bases.