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Old 10-06-2014, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Toonces View Post
Random question for some C5 folks: I flew on you guys 3 times this weekend, and every single departure was late due to maintenance, according to United. Is this a trend or did I get the outlier for the line each day?
It's possible it was a maintenance delay earlier in the day that snowballed over several flights. We're a pretty small operation and each plane usually flies 10 flights a day. If there is a problem it could cascade to each subsequent flight. The downside to a small operation is that we don't normally have any spare planes either. Then again, it is the Dash8 and they are generally maintenance heavy planes anyway. Sometimes you're just unlucky. I had a 4-day trip last week with 18 legs that went on time....with the exception of two...and that was weather related.
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Old 10-13-2014, 05:02 PM
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I interviewed with Commutair a few weeks ago. I must say it was an EYE OPENING experience.
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Old 10-13-2014, 05:13 PM
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I found the interview to be straight forward. It was my third airline interview, with offers from the last two. The first was a learning experience. Someone once posted on this forum, after you select an airline you would like to work for, go and interview somewhere else first. This was great advice. The HR questions were normal and the tech questions were well planned. Just as with any interview, learn about the airline before you get there.
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Old 10-13-2014, 05:37 PM
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For what it's worth, out of the three regionals Ive been at, this was my favorite group of people to work with. And now with the LOA, it's probably one if the best regionals to work for, short term.
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Old 10-14-2014, 06:30 AM
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Not too much to report but here's a couple things:

6 new-hires are in the October class. We have quite a few others in the pipeline who don't meet the ATP minimum hours yet.

No upgrades in November or December because of the holidays and to allow a couple months to fill in the FO side. Upgrades expected to start in January again.

Two planes in RFD, IL for C-checks. One went out about 2.5 weeks ago and is almost finished. One just went yesterday. We are now contracting out our C-checks to get them done faster. From what I understand the company does/did Republic's Q400's and the head of the company is a former Horizon guy. I expect we'll see our maintenance delays start dropping once we get a few planes rotated out from here.

That's about all the new stuff. Otherwise, we just keep trucking along.
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Old 10-14-2014, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Duke990 View Post
Not too much to report but here's a couple things:

6 new-hires are in the October class. We have quite a few others in the pipeline who don't meet the ATP minimum hours yet.

No upgrades in November or December because of the holidays and to allow a couple months to fill in the FO side. Upgrades expected to start in January again.

Two planes in RFD, IL for C-checks. One went out about 2.5 weeks ago and is almost finished. One just went yesterday. We are now contracting out our C-checks to get them done faster. From what I understand the company does/did Republic's Q400's and the head of the company is a former Horizon guy. I expect we'll see our maintenance delays start dropping once we get a few planes rotated out from here.

That's about all the new stuff. Otherwise, we just keep trucking along.

Duke, is 6 an average class size? I am hoping to make the December class!
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Old 10-14-2014, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by r0cknry View Post
Duke, is 6 an average class size? I am hoping to make the December class!
We've had as few as 4 and as many as 10 so I guess it's not too bad. Since we're a small operation, 10 is about as big as you'll see. I'd say average is about 6-8 people per month.
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Old 10-17-2014, 08:21 AM
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When I was a new hire (back when dirt was still new, and we had to walk to class uphill both ways, sun in our eyes, through 3 feet of snow, and never complained) we had a class that was supposed to be 12. One didnt show up so it was 11. If you want in good chance you will get it. Only thing though is the desire to keep the class at even numbers, but I really dont think that is an issue.
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Old 10-18-2014, 10:37 PM
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I heard today from a reliable source that we are getting MDT-EWR back in a few months.
Anyone know if there is a chance C5 may still be getting this route back? Would love to see it back
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Old 10-19-2014, 08:27 AM
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Anyone know if there is a chance C5 may still be getting this route back? Would love to see it back

Hopefully you aren't trying to commute on it while operated by CommutAir, cus if so you'll probably never make it on time.
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