Originally Posted by
TURF17
Curious how bonus money works, if hired as DEC?
How about reserve life as a DEC. If a commuter and with current growth how many days in crashpad can one might expect? Also, how long on reserve as a DEC until one would see a line?
How many guys from your CPP are being hired each year or at least in the pool of new hires? Approximate time frame from being put in pool to starting class is what?
Does C5 have AQP? If so, is it a nine or twelve month rotation?
Thanks for your feedback and any other insight as I chew on these questions and more.
Bonus money is bonus money. It's paid out to all captains quarterly.
Don't know about reserve captains. They've been short lately on captains so reserves have been flying. Dulles is overstaffed and EWR is understaffed.
Usually those off CQF are getting lines in EWR. CQF is ~2-4 months as the company scours the pilot group for people they can upgrade to captain. Might get slightly longer because the company is going to need to hire street captains which take 3-4 months to complete full training vs the 1-2 months required for just upgrade.
When the music stops, the bottom ~10 pilots are going to get stuck as CQFs and that's a bad place to be. No idea on what reserve life is like as a commuter but I've heard it's not fun.
There's a bunch of people in the 'pool' but they don't have the requirements. If you have a degree, when you get 1,000 PIC here you're off to United within ~30-60 days. I know of two guys that just recently got their 1,000 PIC here (under 2 weeks ago) and will be off to United by Christmas. They're running about 3 C5 pilots per United class, but that's assuming they can scrape up 3 pilots here that have passed the CPP and have the requirements. Fair warning, Past Performance Is Not Indicative Of Future Results.
No AQP. Full on checkrides/LOFT/PC.