Originally Posted by
Excargodog
65 ac vs 547 pilots at Air Whiskey is what? 8.4 pilots per aircraft?
By contrast, Republic has 2445 for 189 or 12.9.
Piedmont has 746 for 48 or 15.5.
TSA has 600 for 63 or 9.5.
Only Mesa at 1200 for 145 is comparable at 8.3.
OF COURSE STAFFING IS A FACTOR. They need to work the tails off their pilots to have adequate manning to fly the aircraft.
Air Whiskey is where you go if you don’t really care about quality of life and just want to log hours and move on quickly to somewhere better. And if that’s what you want, it’s great. If not, not so great.
But WHY ON EARTH would you want CAE when you live a 90 minute drive from IAD? That REALLY sounds like self inflicted punishment.
That’s easy—I want the most efficient route to not sitting reserve, and to upgrading. I do have a business to run at home which fortunately can be done pretty easily over the phone and computer. Now if things were to change at IAD from what I am hearing about long reserve times, that might sweeten the pot.