Originally Posted by
Window_Seat
Nowadays you pay your dues flying around (soon to be) 76-90 seat aircraft?But that's ok because you got in your jet at 250 hours. Actually, Pinnacle came to you before you even graduated from college (UND) to hire you on with your 220 hours. There is a reason they have to resort to Jet U guys.
Higney, What are you bidding in base? I think you are giving a lot of people a false impression, but hey you may get 500 bucks out of the deal. Just seems short sighted to me. When you do turn 23 and you are an RJ captain, your going to have to be flying with inexperienced pilots because your company cannot compete with work rules and $$ to get pilots, they have to resort to lowering the hiring standards to get "qualified" people.
Sorry to hear you think that people are getting hired at PNCL out of UND at 220 hours. Their minimums for us are 400TT/50ME and completion of our CRJ course, which happens to be a requirement to graduate with the Commercial Aviation major to begin with. If you want to talk about a company for hiring people out of UND with 220TT start talking about Mesaba. I have 3 people in one of my classes that were all hired at Mesaba with around 220TT.