C5 expanding?
 

Any info on more planes or domiciles moving forward?

We are getting a220s and a Lax base

Yes The Caribbean & Mexico too. Bahamas overnights in January can’t wait!

You guys are hilarious, if not predictable...

Plans right now are to grow as required to meet demand. In a particularly ironic twist of fate, the airline no one wanted to work for will now likely be the only 121 pax carrier growing and hiring over the next 6-12 months.

If you don’t mind moving the throttles yourself, calculating your own VNAV profiles and making dirt, I say come on over. I need the growth and more bodies in the door so I can upgrade.

Calculating your own Vnav profile ? How do you do that ?? Lmao lol 😂

Yeah, the plan is to hire all of the ex-XJT guys at the bottom of the pay scale, right?

you think United shut down ExpressJet just to grow? C’mon man.

I’m not aware of any plans to hire everyone from XJT though I’m sure the company will welcome as many experienced E145 pilots as practical since it will reduce our training costs. A current pilot with an unrestricted type rating in the 145 is just an indoc class and PC away from being on the line, which is a far cry cheaper than taking a pilot from scratch through the entire type rating course.

I honestly don’t see a lot of the top guys at XJT coming here though since I think they’ve had enough and were quite vocal prior to the decision about not accepting concessions of any kind. However, if they do come here they will indeed be starting at year one pay per our CBA. And I would be vehemently opposed to having it any other way simply because this is the way the seniority system works, like it or not. I tolerated DECs coming here, collecting more in bonus than I made my first year here only because I knew I would leapfrog them all when I upgraded.

Well that WAS literally the plan until the pilot shortage got in the way. Post covid demand could see fruition of the original intent

Please stop commenting on things you know nothing about.

There is no such thing as a "short course" in our training program.