Originally Posted by cloudkicker1981
i got hired with colgan in june 05 adn i know that i should probably stay but you do get treated really $hitty. i mean besides low pay there are not any other duty regs for us. i keep getting pulled from trips so guys can do ioe, which is fine but when you put in a bid for a month and get a line then a week before you start that trip (per say at colgan) they pull it adn give you resevre with only reserve pay, this is happen for a while leaving me with 60 hours lines that were blocked for 90 and screwing my whole month up. whats the point of bidding a line. also they tried taking away 3mins off are runup and 3min off are repos.
thanks everyone else who has some useful opinions, i probably will stay like i said, just wanted to hear some more people telling me to stay.
Hmmmm. Colgan will pay you your original block when they pull you for IOE. You need to put in for it. I had it happen to me both as a captain and an f/o and each time they have paid me my full block as planned, not just reserve.
The new employee pilot manual did not pull 3 mins for repos. It listed it at 10 mins, as usual. There was a typo on the runup that when brought to VP Admin's attention, she quickly corrected. It's stands at 15 mins. Also as part of the new pilot employee manual they left out that we are paid the better of scheduled block or actual for each day. That too has been added.
Granted, Colgan is not the highest paying airline in the world. But they are fair. If you have a 90 hour block line, you will get paid for 90 hours. Just put in for it. I just flew with a FA that got drafted. She didn't mind because she was looking for more hours. However, they (I spoke directly with crew scheduling) are paying her an additional 3:45 for yesterday and 3:45 for today, on top of the pairing block. Talk to your lead captain at your base. He'll show you how to list the pay credits on your pay sheet if you don't know.
Stay. Good things are happening here. The company is profitable, private, not asking us for concessions, and primed for more expansion (if we can just find the airframes - S340's are getting rare). After a year you are close to making captain and the corresponding increase in income. PIC time (and recommendations) are everything. I know of two more captains leaving this month for Continental and North American.