Another wrench perhaps, but minimums are minimums. Flight time, age requirements, attitude/personality, resume (titles, etc.) What constitutes the hours of 1501 vs 2500 or whatever. We had a trainee waiting to become of age if you will to finish their 74 type at the training center. Believe he moved on, but good for him. Total package makes more sense with requirements met. Granted, you can drive at the age of 16 (or younger in some cases), but now in some states a handgun is not allowed until your 21 (perfectly alignment with alcohol age). Nothing discriminatory, which is better - 2500hrs predominantly (2/3rds) single engine or the King Air type moving auto parts by themselves most of the time. Not advocating any changes but life doesn’t always make sense. Point taken: In a Perfect World.

 

It has been a while here at Amerijet central...

What's the latest ?
New rates or contract?
757s flying?
Home basing?
Happy pilots?
Best management ever?
Awesome training?
Fast upgrades?

Inquiring for a friend...,

 

​​​​​​The short answer is no.

No new rates and no new contract. The company actually waited until mid December to sign a 150% LOA to help staffing over peak, so we've established that they need to have their heads fully underwater before they realize something needs to be done. The LOA was supposed to self terminate in February, but has since been extended to March. It is apparently still lost on management that a 2nd year Amerijet FO at 150% still only makes $144hr while an ATI 2nd year FO makes $130hr at straight pay. What management has figured out however is that a 2nd year captain makes $144hr, so they might as well just use them in the right seat.

Using Captains as FOs has gone from the occasional use to cover opentime and sick calls to actually scheduling CAs for duty as FO and calling them off reserve for FO flights. This again is not a knee jerk reaction, the company has made it clear that they will continue to run upgrade classes with the full intention of using CAs in the right seat because (A) it gives them more flexibility and (B) it is still cheaper than a new contract.

Hiring is continuing although you couldn't tell by looking at the seniority list. The number of pilot on the seniority list since last march has increased my 22, that includes the 22 hired since the beginning of this year. 76 hired, 44 resigned. Amerijet is managing to retain about ⅓ of new hires. While that seems like a bad thing, when you consider they are saving over $130hr per crew the training cost are not all that significant.
The rumored plan is classes of 14 new hires every 3 weeks with upgrade classes of 8 every month or so. I'm not sure how this plan will work since this is the exact plan they had last year, which they couldn't execute because they lacked the resources and they have not allocated a single dime to improving the training department. It is still the same single person trying to do all the training scheduling themselves. However in true Amerijet fashion, I have heard the newest director of training will be resigning. I believe that makes 4 in a year.

The 757s have started flying, we got the first one I think last July and finally got the manuals and approval to fly them in January. We knew we got the manuals when one day without notice the FCOM just disappeared from everyones iPads. Part of the FCOM showed up later that day as well as the systems manual for the 757. It took 3 full days to get the 767 systems manual back. We started Computer based training on the 757, oh wait no we didn't. They sent out the computer based training and then a day or 2 later realized it was corrupt and had to rescind it. Soon we will all start training on the 757, but how that will go with the current lack of check airman is anybody's guess. Management sent a notice asking for check airman applicants and either the quantity or quality was so low that they had to send out a new notice reducing the requirements from 1 year as an Amerijet captain to 1 year as a captain anywhere.

The most junior upgrade was a 4/21 hire so upgrade is currently less than a year if you have previous 121 time. There are however about 15 or so FOs senior to that person that either don't have the 121 time or are unwilling to give up their seniority. Seniority is important because Amerijet still does not have home basing, nor line bidding, nor any type of schedule pay protection. The closest you can get to a true line is by bidding a "Temp Base" which gets you a reasonably consistent line with positive space tickets to/from the base. If you can't hold a temp base then you are commuting to MIA where you are at the complete mercy of the planners and schedulers. Your schedule will go from 5am show to reserve to 7am show in the days leading up to the flight, with the flight finally being cancelled prior to report the day of the flight. Your planned pay credit will drop from 90 to 60 with no recourse. and you'll still be flying in the right seat. So if you take the early upgrade you will you will basically be a 2nd year ATI FO, minus home basing, line bidding, work, rules, pay protection, medical coverage, or any hope for actual career progression.

So to answer your questions, No. Nothing has changed and Nothing has improved. Although we do expect to get a new contract before last peak, in the first quarter of 2021, by this summer.....

 

SEP,

Sounds like business as usual. Also been noting our MECs buddy buddy with management on FB. No surprises there. It’s all for them none for us. While other airlines demand money for new airframe types, here, the MEC and union go above and beyond to do the job of the company and for free.
These boards have proven time and time again the inadequacy of ALPA. They should have left teamsters in, at least they cared about the pilot group.

I wonder who SM is going to point the finger at for the above post? I’m sure SM is already working on a new target to blame for that posts. I can’t wait to heard all about it.
Funny even his best friend just posted he left for Omni…… very telling…

 

Anyone on here attending that class. And if so, what’s your preparation like?

 

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That’s how you prepare.

Otherwise don’t study. You will be passed no matter what.

 

lol. Guessing you don’t approve of anyone going there. And if so, do you currently work there? And why?

 

I would hate to ruin the “experience” for you. Enjoy!

 

You seem a bit salty, are you still there? Or are you someone that left?

 

same question I asked him. Just want to know? No harm, no foul.