pilotguy7

We are home based... the main "Bases" are SFB, AUS and kinda CLT. But again, they are home based... so they put you where they need you. . .positive space, hotel room crew car/rental car.

100LL

What if one already lives in a base? Say a pilot lives in Austin, can they just primarily fly there and only there without flying to another base?

pilotguy7

Yep. That’s what they want. Much cheaper for them to day that. Home pretty much every night.


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Tpinks

Is your screen name in reference to a C-123 Provider?

Cujo665

You can request that, and get it almost all of the time, but they will send you where needed, and then again when charters come up it goes to whomever is available, or they’ll switch schedules if they want a specific crew doing it. (More often compared to other regionals).

Will you ONLY have to do AUS, no.

captfred

Not many of us old dudes around that remember the 123.

100LL

How many flight hours does one usually get a month on average on the 145 side?

Walkeraviator

Hard question to answer. Depends on where they use you, if IOE is running full steam to staff up, and whether you want to fly a lot or not. As AUS based continues to add routes, flight hours will be abundant. With that said, a lot of guys living in AUS are going through training, and they may have all the AUS flying on lockdown simply because the company saves money on travel and accommodations when using those guys

Macchi30

The feeling when you know the guy who bought Via Air...

Cujo665

Nobody has ever gone out of business flying too small a plane that was always full.... conversely, many have vanished into history flying too big a plane that was always empty.

Their business model is sound, the growth is slow but organic, and larger planes are in the business plan as loads and demand increase. They’re essentially an ULCC operating smaller jets... for now.

They do not fly in somebody else’s paint pretending to be somebody else. They advertise and sell their own tickets.

They have a lot of maturing to do, but are doing well all things considered. They also treat their pilots much better than other regionals.

Home based
No crashpads
No airport standby
No short call RAP unless a hotel is provided
Pilots keep all travel air, hotel and rental car miles.
Captains have company credit card for short notice emergencies or offline charter catering, fuel
Single occupancy hotel in training
Crew cars in training
Most RON’s have crew cars to use
Crew meals for duty days over 12 hours
Salary job, cancellations or lost days in hotels doesnt cut pay

The bad:
The schedules are always late and subject to change at anytime. Best to just think of it as a workday schedule, not an actual flight schedule.
Lots of cancellations still due to maintenance on some tired E145’s. Their mx dept does a good job, they just mistakenly bought aircraft from someplace an experienced airline would not buy planes from. Dispatch reliability is improving a lot compared to last year. They’ve fixed everything, and now it’s basically normal type stuff.
They will multi-leg you to/from work to save $5 even if it costs you 4 extra hours. You can make deals with them when you find similar priced flights.

Truth be told, I would not have left there if I hadn’t been offered a golden ticket elsewhere in heavy equipment with the associated heavy paycheck. I liked the people there, the check always came (sometimes not until midnight, but it came), the flying was fun into some cool destinations, the equipment was well maintained, safe, and if there was a problem, the CA’s word was final.

This will be a great place to work once they get some details worked out, and hire a few more folks. Lots of growing pains in the process. All things considered it’s still better QOL than most regionals. The pay scales are decent for the equipment. The FO side could use another bump though IMHO