And also revise the Profile Quicktake on APC:

Pilot referral bonus of up to $10,000 per pilot.

$17,500 bonus to all pilots hired after 9/1/2017.

-$7,500 after completion of IOE

-$2,500 after nine months

-$7,500 after twelve month

Also most recent upgrade was not Dec 2015.

Seems like they have plenty of apps, so I imagine there’s just no need for the bonus. I’m just a CFI but what this tells me is that if you’re a prospective regional FO who wants to stay in PHX or SoCal, there quite simply is no pilot shortage. At least as far as you’re concerned.

It’s definitely a pay shortage. That being said, the next decade is going to be tough on the regionals with the amount of hiring legacies and now better paying LCCs will be doing. I think they need 18,000 pilots in the next 10 years. That’s still a significant number.

so generous of them. Really we should all be thankful. You know with delta putting their necks out there for an unknown quantity like a dca pilot.

Hiring in this industry is a text book example of hypocrisy.

Recruiter said classes are simply full.

They are. Working on 2019 with crew planning.

https://www.airlineapps.com/jobs/det...=First-Officer still lists $17.5k signing bonus.. ??

FO scheduling, sea
 

Hello,

I’m a 2000 hr pilot with some 135 and multi experience. My wife and I are moving to the Seattle area in the next month; I’ve been studying up and doing a lot of research on Compass. I’m strongly considering applying and trying for a spring 2019 class.

I understand training is normally a day of Indoc in MSP, about 2 weeks of home study, then about 6 weeks of training (maybe more) mostly in MSP (sims in sea and stl also?). This includes a week of ioe as well. Correct?

From there are FOs in Seattle spending a while on reserve or picking up a line pretty quick? I’m not worried about a few months in LAX if I can’t get SEATAC our of training.

My main issue is with this thing called marriage. In order to preserve this I foresee the need to get at least every other weekend (average) off or at least have an idea how many months it will take to achieve this. It would also help to have an idea how many nights/wk average I can expect to spend out of base.

Whenever I talk to folks about scheduling at any regional the responses are something like “could be anything” or “it depends”.

I assume you get the crappier schedules when you first start. Can any of you folks enlighten me to what typical FO schedules are like in Seattle (especially those 1st 6 mo. but also in the 6+mo range)?

I’m looking to build time like everybody else but could be happy flying as few as 500 hrs/yr if nec. Any idea of what you experienced or would expect for someone starting would really help me with my familiar HR negotiations.

Thanks