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OK I've got questions.
1. How long is training? I know its in Burlingame, but how about sims?
2. What's the pay like during training? Also do they put you in a hotel? Single/double occupancy?
3. Do you pay for your own unifroms/baggage?
4. With JetBlue and virgin america now both at Alps, does that start the rumor mill of making a merger easier?
Sorry if these questions have been answered somewhere else, I don't have time to flip through all these pages. Thanks
I went through a few years ago, so I dont know if its still accurate but it was:
1. Training is about 2 months. 1.5 weeks of indoc and systems, 2 weeks of MFTD, Oral exam, then 2 weeks of Sims, Checkride. Then you get a min. of 7 days off, then off to IOE. To be signed off, you have to fly with 2 different LCA. Sim is also in Burlingame, but in a different location that HQ.
2. $2500/mo. No hotel
3. Uniform and luggage is all free. Then you get $200 credit a year in the uniform store.
4. That's just all Rumor. Who knows. But VX going ALPA plays no factor in facilitating a merger. SWA/AT and AA/US were both separate unions, it didn't stop them from getting together.