Originally Posted by BetOnIt

Nothing is new at AWAC. No iPads, new flying, new paint, AA travel benefits. If you left this place in 2009 and were to come back right now, it would be just like you left it except for a crew self service site that may or may not work on any given day or computer.

As far as all this movement goes, there really isn't that much. The last vacancy results rendered 12 new captains of which I think 4 had been bypassing for a long time. These new captains have a start date of March so assuming this pace continues it will net 48 captains for the entire year. A lot of FO's are leaving before they even reach their one year mark, so that is why a lot of the newer guys are seeing so much movement.

I have no idea what these goals are or were that FOD keeps talking about that we have met to extend our flying with US/AA. If we had to meet goals that would help us keep flying, don't you think they would tell us so that we could help meet them? I think they would. Management likes to just tell us stuff to keep our hopes up so that we won't all deplete our sick banks and leave them unable to do the flying.

You can make more money here than at a few of the other regionals by picking up a lot of open time, which is probably how Chip made that much on second year pay. I never broke 50K as an FO without per diem, but I don't pick stuff up.