Air Wisconsin or Republic ?
09-21-2017, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by mpet
.... Air Wisconsin is and has historically been regarded as one of the best regional airlines to work for. Their minimums were higher than everyone's, their pay was higher than everyones, their insurance, their contract, their training has been better or as good as any other. They are the exact opposite of a bottom feeder, and your CFI buddies said they're a Mesa? Your CFI buddies are retarded.
09-21-2017, 08:56 AM
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Air Wisconsin or Republic ?
Originally Posted by ChrisPilot1
One more question, thanks everyone for the responses. Are these bonuses taxed at a compounded or flat rate of 25%?
It doesn’t matter what regional you work for. If it’s paid as a bonus, they are all taxed as a bonus at 25%. If your effective tax rate ends up being lower when you file you get some back.
09-22-2017, 11:24 AM
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I had chosen Wisconsin and got scheduled for a ground school but honestly reading through the last 100 or so pages of the main thread here im having second doubts.
1) Alot of people are saying the company is pretty much BS'ing the upgrade times and 18-24 months is simply projeted right now. How is this looking for a guy entering ground school next month?
2) Reserve times , I was told that reserve would be 2-3 months in ORD at the most. Still holding true?
3) ALOT of complaints over management over working pilots, not caring and schedules constantly changing?
1) Alot of people are saying the company is pretty much BS'ing the upgrade times and 18-24 months is simply projeted right now. How is this looking for a guy entering ground school next month?
2) Reserve times , I was told that reserve would be 2-3 months in ORD at the most. Still holding true?
3) ALOT of complaints over management over working pilots, not caring and schedules constantly changing?
09-22-2017, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisPilot1
I had chosen Wisconsin and got scheduled for a ground school but honestly reading through the last 100 or so pages of the main thread here im having second doubts.
1) Alot of people are saying the company is pretty much BS'ing the upgrade times and 18-24 months is simply projeted right now. How is this looking for a guy entering ground school next month?
2) Reserve times , I was told that reserve would be 2-3 months in ORD at the most. Still holding true?
3) ALOT of complaints over management over working pilots, not caring and schedules constantly changing?
1) Alot of people are saying the company is pretty much BS'ing the upgrade times and 18-24 months is simply projeted right now. How is this looking for a guy entering ground school next month?
2) Reserve times , I was told that reserve would be 2-3 months in ORD at the most. Still holding true?
3) ALOT of complaints over management over working pilots, not caring and schedules constantly changing?
3.) It is true. But once we get more pilots here, that will go away for the most part.
09-22-2017, 12:47 PM
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When I got hired they said reserve was 6 months to a year. I sat reserve for 2 weeks. Upgrade time was 6 years. I upgraded in 4. Point is there's no way to predict all this stuff perfectly but fact is they need to hire a few hundred guys like yesterday. If you get in on the front end of that wave, regardless what the bitter online people say, odds are you will upgrade in a short period of time. Not everyone is exactly cut out to upgrade in 18 months anyways. If it takes 2 or 3 years that's still very quick. They even pay you 8k if you don't upgrade!
09-22-2017, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisPilot1
I had chosen Wisconsin and got scheduled for a ground school but honestly reading through the last 100 or so pages of the main thread here im having second doubts.
1) Alot of people are saying the company is pretty much BS'ing the upgrade times and 18-24 months is simply projeted right now. How is this looking for a guy entering ground school next month?
2) Reserve times , I was told that reserve would be 2-3 months in ORD at the most. Still holding true?
3) ALOT of complaints over management over working pilots, not caring and schedules constantly changing?
1) Alot of people are saying the company is pretty much BS'ing the upgrade times and 18-24 months is simply projeted right now. How is this looking for a guy entering ground school next month?
2) Reserve times , I was told that reserve would be 2-3 months in ORD at the most. Still holding true?
3) ALOT of complaints over management over working pilots, not caring and schedules constantly changing?
09-22-2017, 05:31 PM
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The 18-24 month upgrade is never going to happen.
That advertisement first came out about 6 months ago. So anyone hired under that assumption will obviously be behind everyone on property 6 months ago. So that means they have 12 months to upgrade 250+ FO's that were already on property to hit the 18 month number before the first guy hired being told that, sees an upgrade. They would need to start upgrading 20 a month now for that to happen, and guess what, not happening.
Everyone keeps saying there's 20+ per month in new hire classes yet the pay day hotline from ALPO clearly shows that half of them are forced to resign.
Junior mans everyday. For everyone. Help out or get an unavailable. "If you don't do this the flight will cancel, blah blah"
That advertisement first came out about 6 months ago. So anyone hired under that assumption will obviously be behind everyone on property 6 months ago. So that means they have 12 months to upgrade 250+ FO's that were already on property to hit the 18 month number before the first guy hired being told that, sees an upgrade. They would need to start upgrading 20 a month now for that to happen, and guess what, not happening.
Everyone keeps saying there's 20+ per month in new hire classes yet the pay day hotline from ALPO clearly shows that half of them are forced to resign.
Junior mans everyday. For everyone. Help out or get an unavailable. "If you don't do this the flight will cancel, blah blah"
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