Originally Posted by
PDTpilotXX
You're both close... It's a 4hr modified min. Anyways if the schedules improve here it'll be a great place to work again. Seems like a lot of changes are happening for the better so I guess in the mean time we wait and see.
If you're a current PDT pilot it seems that Alaska and United have hired more of our pilots in the last few months adding to the semi annual sweep from JetBlue and US/AA.
Looks like seniority for the Junior Captains is moving at 100 spots per year and about 150 per year for Junior F/Os.
In a company of under 400 Pilots, that's less than 2 years to upgrade and about 2-3 years from there to be picked for the flow. And this is before we start taking on more aircraft.
The training department isn't as bad as the washouts advertise, But you have to study to pass. It goes by very quickly.
Back to schedules, why do they build all those 90hr lines with 11 days off when the contract only mandates 75Hr?!? seems like there's 3 days more work than necessary.