Commutair or Expressjet?
05-20-2019, 07:13 AM
#182
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Originally Posted by corporategypsy
Its all about timing. I sat 4.5 months of reserve but averaged 60 hrs of flying each month. I have a line with commutable trips now. There are enough street captains hired after me that I'll have a capt line as soon as I upgrade.
05-20-2019, 08:04 AM
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Wow, as a former C5er, I find it funny that this is even a question. C5 and ExpressJet must be vastly different places now if this is even a question. What is the date of hire of the most senior C5er these days. Anyone still around from the BE-1900 days?
05-20-2019, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by NEDude
Wow, as a former C5er, I find it funny that this is even a question. C5 and ExpressJet must be vastly different places now if this is even a question. What is the date of hire of the most senior C5er these days. Anyone still around from the BE-1900 days?
08-11-2020, 08:49 PM
#185
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Well, as an update, I chose Expressjet. Overall I think it was the right choice.
Training program was great, pilots and management (from my perspective) all, for the most part, great.
Also the scheduling system they have is amazing: I was hired in spring, and had the entire week of thanksgiving off as a lineholder. In december I had 2 weeks off starting December 21. Their line bidding system allows a 1st year junior FO lineholder to drop down to 10 days or less of work per month, then pick up open time as desired.
The EMB-145 is an intuitively designed and well-made airplane. I will never say a bad thing about it. It is much, much less complicated and more straight forward than the planes I flew to get to Expressjet.
All this to show that in the end, all these agonizing choices don't really matter. Just pick something and work hard. If I had gone to Commutair things might have been a bit different, but probably not too much.
"should i do this or that?" Just do one, and crush it out of the park. The question isn't which path you take, but how hard you push yourself when you get on it. Expressjet got me what I needed, and where I needed. Commutair probably would have too.
Training program was great, pilots and management (from my perspective) all, for the most part, great.
Also the scheduling system they have is amazing: I was hired in spring, and had the entire week of thanksgiving off as a lineholder. In december I had 2 weeks off starting December 21. Their line bidding system allows a 1st year junior FO lineholder to drop down to 10 days or less of work per month, then pick up open time as desired.
The EMB-145 is an intuitively designed and well-made airplane. I will never say a bad thing about it. It is much, much less complicated and more straight forward than the planes I flew to get to Expressjet.
All this to show that in the end, all these agonizing choices don't really matter. Just pick something and work hard. If I had gone to Commutair things might have been a bit different, but probably not too much.
"should i do this or that?" Just do one, and crush it out of the park. The question isn't which path you take, but how hard you push yourself when you get on it. Expressjet got me what I needed, and where I needed. Commutair probably would have too.
08-12-2020, 05:47 AM
#186
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Originally Posted by watch
Well, as an update, I chose Expressjet. Overall I think it was the right choice.
Training program was great, pilots and management (from my perspective) all, for the most part, great.
Also the scheduling system they have is amazing: I was hired in spring, and had the entire week of thanksgiving off as a lineholder. In december I had 2 weeks off starting December 21. Their line bidding system allows a 1st year junior FO lineholder to drop down to 10 days or less of work per month, then pick up open time as desired.
The EMB-145 is an intuitively designed and well-made airplane. I will never say a bad thing about it. It is much, much less complicated and more straight forward than the planes I flew to get to Expressjet.
All this to show that in the end, all these agonizing choices don't really matter. Just pick something and work hard. If I had gone to Commutair things might have been a bit different, but probably not too much.
"should i do this or that?" Just do one, and crush it out of the park. The question isn't which path you take, but how hard you push yourself when you get on it. Expressjet got me what I needed, and where I needed. Commutair probably would have too.
Training program was great, pilots and management (from my perspective) all, for the most part, great.
Also the scheduling system they have is amazing: I was hired in spring, and had the entire week of thanksgiving off as a lineholder. In december I had 2 weeks off starting December 21. Their line bidding system allows a 1st year junior FO lineholder to drop down to 10 days or less of work per month, then pick up open time as desired.
The EMB-145 is an intuitively designed and well-made airplane. I will never say a bad thing about it. It is much, much less complicated and more straight forward than the planes I flew to get to Expressjet.
All this to show that in the end, all these agonizing choices don't really matter. Just pick something and work hard. If I had gone to Commutair things might have been a bit different, but probably not too much.
"should i do this or that?" Just do one, and crush it out of the park. The question isn't which path you take, but how hard you push yourself when you get on it. Expressjet got me what I needed, and where I needed. Commutair probably would have too.
Have you been able to line up another job? Would you consider applying to C5 (if we start hiring at some point)?
08-13-2020, 11:27 AM
#187
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Originally Posted by dead meat
Thanks for the update. I've seen you post stuff in the ExpressJet forum. It seems you have been happy over there.
Have you been able to line up another job? Would you consider applying to C5 (if we start hiring at some point)?
Have you been able to line up another job? Would you consider applying to C5 (if we start hiring at some point)?
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