Originally Posted by bender
If you are getting concerned about the longer upgrade time you should remember this. The company just doubled in size. Everyone who just upgraded in the last 12 months does not have enough PIC time to move on. Colgan, just like Great Lakes and Regions, is not a career place for most of the group and as soon as the captains get enough turbine PIC they will leave. ALL of my captains at my base are sending out resumes. One has an interview at NetJets and another has an interview for a corporate job in NYC. Believe me, unless management goes altruistic and gives us huge increases in pay/benefits, Colgan won't become another Piedmont or Horizon.
If you read the conference call from April, Brinks talks about the people who just got hired, I know of most of them. JetBlue the guy was a check airman with 6000 hrs, and a lot of that was PIC. Southwest, she (hint hint) did my IOE and had another 5-6000 hrs. The guys going to North American are all connected to each other and you know the ones at Continental knew somebody. Im not trying to be negative, I want to upgrade just as as you do but the only way that is going to happen fast is if Colgan grows!
Im glad to see and hear from guys at Colgan on here, especially ones from all over the Northeast who can relay rumors faster.