I'd head to Atlas or Southern.

Naahh...Bedford already has those locked up :p

SFB "Base"
 

From what I gather most scheduled traffic "hubs" out of AUS and SFB. There are two applications on the website...one for the 120 and another for the 145. Which one does more work out of SFB? Thanks.

What are your times? Places like Omni & Kalitta have upped their mins to the point the average guy being hired now is 8,000 TT. Spirit is hiring FO’s from regionals before their 1st year probation is up. Jetblue is grabbing them around 3500 TT. The home basing, no crashpads, is a big plus for places like Via, Omni, Kalitta, Atlas and a few others are starting to do it too. No commuting to sit RAP in crashpads and positive space tickets are amazing QOL improvements.

Via plans larger birds in about 2-3 years they say. Owner favors E175/190 and VP/DO favors 737. MX management is now run by large plane folks (320/737 type guys).

Street CA published mins are 5000 TT and 1000 pic Jet. If you’re typed in the 145, which you are, they make allowances for that and the 5000 isn’t a hard number. Starting street CA is $78k salary. You get the same pay regardless if you’re sitting in the hotel, deadheading, or flying all day. Day off pay goes above guarantee salary.

They’ll schedule to work two blocks of 9 days each month with at least 2 of those long call at home (nobody has ever been called from long call at home). Or if you’d rather knock it all out at once they’ll build one long trip too. Their biggest flaw is they are always late late late giving people their monthly schedules. It’s the only really big complaint I’ve heard.

145 is the growing fleet and does most of the flying.
The 120’s are making money on EAS routes, but they’re only running two of them currently.

It’s a small family owned company where once hired you do get to meet and interact with the bosses all during training. Their computerized procedures trainer crapped out, so the owner took the class himself out to the maintenance hanger at SFB, pulled a jet out onto the ramp, and sat there with the guys working flows and call outs all day with APU running to keep everybody cool. The owner is typed and occasionally even comes and flys.

He owns or is involved with several other Fortune 500 type companies.

Thanks, Cujo. Does it matter which application a hopeful new hire fills..or does HR sort that out as part of the process?

It definately matters. Goes to different managers and chief pilots.
Plus, right now an E120 app will go into a pool as no hiring is expected until fall for FO E120.

Sounds like one cool guy who’s an awesome leader

He’s definately way better than most. He’s smart enough to know he doesn’t know everything aviation and will listen to rational reasons why a policy or procedure should be changed. That said, he is a mega millionaire and occasionally the behavior and actions can match the best stupidity of any airline CEO. I enjoyed working for him. He’s more interested in enabling his employees to produce a great product than in micromanaging everything.

Honestly, their biggest weakness is the pilot schedules. They’re always late handing out the next months schedule. If you can get your day off requests in a month ahead, they were good at getting you the requested days off. Other than that schedules were always late. They schedule 18 days a month, at least 2 of which are always long call from home, and nobody has ever been called from long call. So, realistically it 16 days at worst. You can get that broken up in two three or all at once. Tell them and they’ll try to do it your way. They like the all at once since they don’t have to buy extra airline tickets for your home basing, but doing two or three blocks works too.
You’ll eventually get your schedule which will have at least 2 long call days, scheduled flying days, short call days in a hotel, and 30 hour days off in hotels as needed. You’re salary, so,it really doesn’t matter if your at a hotel, or out flying... the pay is the same. I’ve gone to work for a ten day block and flown two days due to mechanicals and weather... it happens. Pay stays the same.

Keeping the hotel points and all the air miles is great, you’ll be executive platinum and racking up free tickets pretty quickly. When family vacation comes around, it will be on real free award tickets and free hotel awards. There are definately worse places to work.

So since you can break up the schedule is it possible to have a permanent 9 on 9 off schedule since you will get your 18 days in per month anyways? Also how long are upgrades taking?