Breeze details
 

Copied from a company forum poster who interviewed:

Breeze Gouge:
1. Bases are not nailed down yet but they expect the first bases to be in NY, VA, FL, and TN.
2. The first 30 hired will be Check Airmen. <--Have already hired these as of 2/12/2020
3. Bases will start on the east coast and move westward within 1-2 years.
4. They're hiring CA's first. Pay rate year 1 is $112 and year 7 is $159 for the E195, A220 will be $128-$180 respectively. 195 FO pay starts at $55 and I honestly forgot to write down where it ended. $60 something first year FO on the A220.
5. 401K and vacation are comparable to your average LCC. They were candid with the fact they cannot offer legacy airline bennies.
6.They're offering you $1500 per month extra if you live within a 30 mile drive of your base for the first 30 months.
7. They expect the operating certificate to be handed over around July 2020, starting with charter flights, and plan to have scheduled service begin in November.
8. E195 trips are planned to be day trips for the most part, and when the A220's arrive those trips will be more in line with a normal pairing length with overnights.
9. 125% pay over 82 hours per month, and 150% critical pay.
10. Lastly, they expect 6-9 small E195 bases.
11. Street CA mins are 1000PIC in type

Breeze is putting out a social media foot print. A good way to try and stay informed. They have IG, Facebook, and LinkedIn so far that I have seen.

https://instagram.com/breeze_airways...=15s3gfcttgsqw

https://m.facebook.com/BreezeAirways/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/breeze-airways

OK, definitely a “step up” from any of the majors connection or express circus show.

This could be an opportunity for Compass pilots possibly? Already typed on the airframe and facing uncertainty ahead.

Unfortunately it's on the wrong coast, at least for now.

And would this be DN competition?

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/airl...tartup-carrier

The airline referenced in that article is going to be direct competition to Breeze, supposedly. I met one of the execs that is working on that project, and she was one of the founders of jetBlue, and has executive experience at Southwest. She said they were going to do point to point with all 737s and be a low cost carrier. They ended up buying the Xtra Airways operating certificate.

Caution, there's another airline he started in the US that constantly tells it's staff they are well taken care of, but it simply isn't true. It's a mind trick that largely works on a significant proportion of the population.

Just keep telling them they are well paid, and keep sending happy emails, and people will work for less for decades.

Also, people keep saying "what were F9, Spirit, JB, Allegiant pay rates x years ago?"... Those companies STILL pay WELL below market leading rates, some of them dramatically well below, after decades. And UAL and DL (and I think AA) are currently in negotiations and will likely pull even further ahead in the next couple of years.

And some dude has suggested an airline should have 30 year pay steps? That's a terrible idea. Pilots should negotiate for the best top rate possible, and then hope to achieve that rate in the shortest time possible. Postponing top rate for 20-30 years is a terrible idea, and the hope that a 30 year rate would be higher than a 12 year rate, that money has to come from somewhere, and it will come out of the 12 year rate... Simply a terrible idea.

Sounds like Sun Country. The 737 is not optimized for super low cost travel - the A220-300 is.

Yeah, she initially said it was going to be 737 MAXs, but it looks like it’s going to be 737-800s initially.