Originally Posted by
IlliniPilot99
if you live in base that's fine.
but I still get all the emails from the union and talk with a bunch of pilots there..
1. about 80% of the attrition is the bottom of the list
not that accurate, I'm in the middle of the total list and move up pretty regularly. More CA's leave than you think.
2. a massive displacement is expected soon with the parking of the Q's and 145's
it's not that massive. I sit 40 or so from the left seat of a 170, 30 from the 145. If they displaced everyone tomorrow they would lose about 40 guys from just saying screw it, and it would basically by them 9 months before they would be in big trouble. Not to mention the sim space for such a training even just doesn't exist.
3. If you left for TSA or PSA you would upgrade in less than a year and hold a line.
Not buying that, the money I would lose in the long run isn't close to being worth chasing the left seat and being furlough fodder in the near future.
4. we haven't even hit summer yet and RAH is cancelling 25% just due to lack of crews
we don't cancel 25% of our flights, maybe 25% of the total cancellations are crew related. Still way too high.
5. How many pilots are bypassing the 145 for the 170, last I heard it was around 70 which would push back upgrade even further
they have stopped back filling the 145, EWR has been getting bypassed pretty regularly. This year should get through the 2008 hires.
Even for the sake of the contract...it is so unbearably bad that at TSA I'm on pace to make almost double what I did on 3rd year pay and am sitting Left seat.
Good luck but IMO,staying there for in base is fine but 100 numbers isn't good enough to stay
to each his own, I have more than enough RJ training events and FO time to place bottom chaser.