Originally Posted by bonvoyage

MSY is only Ejets and not as much passenger flying anymore. You’ll be on indefinite reserve and be sent to other bases to cover broken A220 flying. They will send you to a different base for 10+ days at a time, with a 30 hour break somewhere and you will be “legal” to have to do it. The problem is you can’t even make it home on your rest day, since it’s a secondary city with very limited flights to and from. The best case scenario is you sit on indefite short call and fly the sports charters when those pick back up. Which could be getting called out to do a turn everyday for days on end. Or getting an 8-10 day multi leg pairing.

By 2024 we were supposed to originally have 80+ airplanes, and over 100 by 2025. As you can see we missed our mark by some accord. Originally management was planning to keep the Ejets longer, or get more of them, but they went the other way and we don’t have nearly the A220s we hoped to get. We are hiring now because finally we are getting a few new planes (which are trash and stay in maintenance facilities to correct corrosion problems), and to cover attrition. If you’re young and want an airline career, either try and get the Airbus so you can actually build experience to leave, or go to a regional and do that route. You’ll sit around for years on the Ejet on indefinite reserve. 2022 hires are still on reserve