Originally Posted by
lowbalance
Can anyone shed some light as to what one can expect as a 145-FO new hire. Interested in more info about schedule, quality of life, how is training, what is the training foot print like. Is there any additional routes Via is searching out or additions to the fleet in the near future? What type hotels are you in when on reserve or overnights? Is there a lot of reduced rest overnights or not on average? Are the schedules flexible or changed often, when are the schedules assigned?
Appreciate any info, thanks!
It's all over the place as far as training. . . some training is 3 months, others is 8 or 9 months. They took a huge hit in March when they lost a lot of IOE CA's . . . so the entire training ended up the back of the chief pilot. It is SLOWLY getting better. They are really looking for folks to be based at either Austin, or Orlando although they still claim "home basing". Schedules are suppose to be at least 15 or so days out or more, but right now (because they are short on pilots) they come out about a week before.
This is not a "normal" airline, all trips come back to base, unless there is an issue. So if you are based in Austin, you are in Austin every night . . .if you are on reserve, then you sit reserve at your home. If you are home based, you dont get predium while flying out of your home based. AS far as working you hard . . . many pilots right now are flying the max number of days or hours flown a month per 117. This place will either be a great place one day, or they will continue to have a hard time based on the decisions that keep being made by management.