Originally Posted by
gsoflyer
Thanks Dash,
No, MAC was not union. Likewise, a feeder pilot was about the last one to get hired by Fedex.
I think you and I are, not intentionally of course, talking at cross purposes. Wouldn't experience matter if for instance the higher seniority person does not have the required 121 experience and the guy behind him does. A captain bid goes out reaching to the depth of their seniority numbers. The former would not be qualified if he doesn't have his ATP and/or 1000 121 hours. Correct?
That situation may not be happening right now, but as someone else pointed out, it might as you bring on the jets requiring 10 new crew members (more or less) per plane.
Nonetheless, PDT sounds like a decent (as regionals go) place to work. I have two new questions:
1. Realistically, what can you get as take home pay considering salary, per diem, and maybe one or two extra trips per month?
2. Can you use travel benefits to go overseas, for instance to Ireland.
Thanks.
First year pay, probably about 2.5k a month take home, maybe a little more if you pickup extra trips. We have the best travel benefits in the regionals. Same benefits as a mainline pilot and we don't pay for it like some other regionals since we're wholly owned, standby list is based on check in time not seniority so you could get on before a 330 captain if you check in before him, even on his own metal etc.
This place has turned upside down in the last year, training department under new management much much more chill, flow thru, lots of expansion in the near future talking approx 80 or more jets overall, not trying to start rumors but apparently that's realistically what they're looking at. Good contract, good vacation, hub basing on the way but schedules and hourly rate still leave much to be desired.