Originally Posted by AerChungus

When C5 is hiring FOs, they definitely take R-ATP. What they've told us is that classes for FOs are resuming mid-September after being suspended since mid-March. Not sure how full the classes are but it couldn't hurt to apply.

As far as recommending C5, I'm pretty happy here. Crews are great, Aviate is the fastest "flow" out of the 3 even though it's not contractual like CAP/Propel and American's flow, and we really do have the best commuter deal in the regionals with 6 free hotel rooms per month on reserve. The Embraer 145 is long in the tooth and United is scoped out on the 175 so unless Mesa, Republic, or SkyWest part ways with UA, we are gonna have some soul searching years on the horizon. We have the same problems any regional has with being overstaffed on FOs and in IAD over 50% of the FOs are on reserve this month. We do have FOs leaving but I'll bet that a lot more upgrade here and stay in the captain seat because of Aviate compared to a SkyWest or Republic. I wouldn't advocate for hanging out here if you got a call from Delta or Southwest, but for a lot of us who would have to commute to an LCC too, they are making it worth our while to stay until that first legacy call. For me personally, my #1 goal is DL and UA is my #2. I should supposedly flow in 2ish years (fully expecting it to take 3+) and I'll hope to get a call from Delta in that time but if it doesn't pan out, I'll just flow to UA. If I had to do it all over again, I'd come here again.