Originally Posted by
LHSmith
Good luck. If you need the experience, it's a place in which to attain that. If you need to get recurrent after a short hiatus from aviation, it's one of many places in which to do it.
I was hired 13 months ago as a direct entry captain for the latter reason and am leaving in a few days for a major airline. 19 years ago, Comair had better reserve rules and quality of life than ENY does in 2019. In 2001, we did an 89 day ALPA strike, yet the climate was far less abrasive and contentious leading up to the strike than it is here at present day ENY during normal, everyday operations.
ENY's problem is the culture. It's miserable. I have never seen such disdain and contempt between management and the work groups; all work groups. The culture that is present is one propagated down directly from AA and will never change.
If I knew a year ago what I know now, I would have reattained my currency elsewhere. ENY is a miserable place to work, in my opinion.
This is merely my opinion based on 13 months of hand-on observation. There will be those that agree with me and those that do not; to each his own. I would not recommend ENY to anyone.
As he said the experience varies wildly. The issues with Direct Entry Captains has been that even though they're obtaining company seniority everyday, their in seat seniority has not moved as rapidly. As FO's who are senior to them continue to upgrade, they are in this period of perpetual reserve until all eligible FO's who are senior to them upgrade. While I do understand that its not pleasant, thats how seniority works (honestly not trying to sound insensitive, I feel your pain). However to make a statement that "I would not recommend ENY to anyone." is simply unfair and unequivocally misguiding as a vast majority of people who come here are brand new FO's in where the aforementioned problem would not exist. Congrats on the new company, where ya headed off to?