Tampa2

Reserve is not fun. However as advertised in ground school two months is all I spent & now I have a line. There is some light at the end of that tunnel.

hslightnin

The issue is, C5 probably has the worst reserve language in the industry.
It literaly consists of the following "can not be assigned airport reserve for longer than 8 hours" & "if not assigned a trip by 1900 on last reserve day, you will be released"
That's all alpa could muster in the last contract.
We need to continue filling classes. Some people will be stuck on reserve for a while.

NonRevBallin

Good luck with the United CPP without a degree.

ALI G Mmmm

I graduate in 17 months with my bachelors. I don't think I'll go to united by then.


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JDfly

JBC...or anyone else,
What were the quals/experience of the guys getting Captain out of Indoc? Second question...what is date of hire based on--day 1 of Indoc paperwork? CJO?
JD

LongsleevesNhat

1000 hours 121 and 1st day of class

FDX8891

Anybody worrying about reserve rules and being "stuck" at a company that's poised to triple in size in 36 months is focusing on the wrong things.

hslightnin

Thats the "I got mine" attitude that got us where we are.
Right now the company would probably be more than willing to fix the issue, my understanding the union hasn't even approached it.
As we start parking the dash you can be certain there will be guys stuck on reserve for a while. That's next year.
We aren't poised to triple in size. We are going to be a 400 pilot airline and as of now we broke 300. This can and probably will change.

N6279P

Triple? What kind of math are you using?

Whoop

Prior to the jet announcement November last year, this was a pilot group of a little over 150 pilots (guys, please double check me on this).

Right now, including the September class, it is approximately 300.

I think the math includes all the pilots on property prior to the announcement, plus those required to operate the 40 jets. Even with the Dash retirements, the airline is already on track to more than double in size.

Should the airline continue to grow with more planes to replace the Dash fleet, that's where the triple number comes back up.

Most here would argue that that more airplanes are inevitable and management continues to build infrastructure for way more than even a 60 airplane fleet. They've even admitted the reasoning for infrastructure improvements (and I'm greatly rounding down their numbers).

There are lots of places to get hired now. Very few have a longstanding history of good union/management relations, such as CommutAir has.

Is everything perfect? No. Could several things improve, e.g. Reserve Rules, sure. But this is only the second contract for this company and the union meets monthly with management to continue working on improvements.

But everyone here is great to work with and the company wants you to succeed in training and on the job.

Any day of the week, I'd put my family on one of our flights with one of our crews.

Though I like Kool Aid, I don't know what the company Kool Aid color is- especially since I'm more of a coffee guy. I'm saying this, coming from 16 years of professional flying (6.5 years of which was for another regional where you were always waiting for the other shoe to drop; where because of management actions- no executive would even be seen or talk with any of the crews or employees). That doesn't happen here.