They just posted on bizjet yesterday.Will VIA accept previous Part 135 Jet PIC under 135.243a1 toward upgrade or direct entry PIC

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If you’re close to their published mins time wise they probably will. They had guys from their own 135 side to 121 side left seat to left seat. If you have 1,000 135 PIC I think your good under the 121 upgrade requirements. You can have 1,000 121 SIC also.

Thank you Cujo665, appreciate it.

No worries, it was an excuse to call and chat with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. I liked working there.

Thanks for info just updated resume have over 1,000 Jet PIC Part 135 so hopefully hear back

Via info/news
 

Can anyone shed some light as to what one can expect as a 145-FO new hire. Interested in more info about schedule, quality of life, how is training, what is the training foot print like. Is there any additional routes Via is searching out or additions to the fleet in the near future? What type hotels are you in when on reserve or overnights? Is there a lot of reduced rest overnights or not on average? Are the schedules flexible or changed often, when are the schedules assigned?

Appreciate any info, thanks!

It's all over the place as far as training. . . some training is 3 months, others is 8 or 9 months. They took a huge hit in March when they lost a lot of IOE CA's . . . so the entire training ended up the back of the chief pilot. It is SLOWLY getting better. They are really looking for folks to be based at either Austin, or Orlando although they still claim "home basing". Schedules are suppose to be at least 15 or so days out or more, but right now (because they are short on pilots) they come out about a week before.

This is not a "normal" airline, all trips come back to base, unless there is an issue. So if you are based in Austin, you are in Austin every night . . .if you are on reserve, then you sit reserve at your home. If you are home based, you dont get predium while flying out of your home based. AS far as working you hard . . . many pilots right now are flying the max number of days or hours flown a month per 117. This place will either be a great place one day, or they will continue to have a hard time based on the decisions that keep being made by management.

So are they hiring to replace the lost CA's? I applied with 4000+ Pic in type weeks ago. No reply. If they take away home basing, the quality of applicants is gonna take a hit.

Sorry to hear that about you guys. Sounds brutal. Just curious why guys would stick around for the misery when theres other 121 charter outfits that have pretty decent QOL pay and schedules? Full disclosure im at Elite. But FO pay there is $60k to start with complete home basing. The schedule is line bidding either A or B and its simply put, alternating weeks of work. If you arent assigned a trip typically four days in advance, and it's your "on" days, you are OFF. roughly week on week off now especially with staffing approaching a 7/7 level. I guess the other difference is your 135 side. Not familiar with that but there was talk about putting a VIP CRJ on a 135 over at elite as well. Hope things work out for you guys.

future growth?
 

Is there any future growth plans for the fleet and additional routes/markets, or is the company content with the current route structure and fleet size? is there potential for maybe some midwest routes/markets? What are typical schedules like 6/5, 7/7 etc... how does the scheduling work with 117 rules, is it based on seniority? Are there many guys leaving now? Does the company work with you if you have appointments come up for your kids during the month that you would need a day off etc?

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