Originally Posted by
beeker
I am in the pool at cape air and Gene just gave me the list of cities that are going to have openings. The email that reads.
This class and the bases are: STL award cities, RUT (VT), SLK, (NY)
our ALBANY Region of upstate NY OGS-Ogsdenburg, MSS-Messena, ART-Watertown and LEB (Lebannon NH). All bases are out-station based. No MA / ie BOS or HYA bases.
Due to family reasons this looks like I will have to commute to start off and I was wondering if any cape air people had comments on these locations. Are there overnights or day trips? In these cities I will be looking for some sort of minimum transportation and lodging, like a crashpad, what is available? Does anyone have any ideas?
OGS
MSS
ART
LEB
are all very commutable schedules, we don't have any overnights anywhere so you will need a crashpad, which will be very difficult to find at these locations, plan on renting a second apartment. Pay is minimal - 35 hr min is all you are going to get (that is why these are so jr and unfilled)
SLK
RUT
these locations are less commutable but still doable especially if you have commuted in the past. Schedules have much higher line values such as 47-51 hours a week (remember anything over 40 hours is time and a half)
The good news on ALL of these locations is the cities have relatively low cost of living so you could potentially find apartments cheap, SLK is pretty much Lake Placid so rent is a bit higher due to the vacationers there. I would suggest moving to one of the upstate new york or stl locations if they are open and trying to get some sort of written garauntee stating you are base protected. in that location for a set amount of time. You could live pretty well on the pay if you were to move to the city but will have very low QOL if you are commuting
The lines for STL locations (Cape Girardeau, Decatur (which i hear we may not get), Quincy, and one more i can't think of) have not been determined as of this point, we have no way of knowing what the lines will look like there but most of us are expecting to see something along the lines of 4 on 4 off 35 hour a week lines
Just my .02
Congrats on getting hired, the job market SUCKS right now