A guy in my interview group (a few years ago) was hired with ~1,460ish and told to have 1,500 by training...which turned out not to be a problem. Good guy, if I remember correctly he was barely old enough to even get his ATP...probably about to upgrade to Captain.

Yes.............

Any idea on how to get in touch with a recruiter as someone with an ATP, E170/190 PIC type rating, current and airline apps updated regularly?

Have you gone to any job fairs?

It will be that way for a long time, it wasn't an arbitrated in the new contract

You DO NOT have to pay for a hotel during training.


















You could just as easily barter for a room, pitch a tent outside Pan Am, buy a cheap camper, sleep at MSP every night. Get creative

Ha! Ya, only 2 in my class of 11 had a hotel room. Everyone rented a crashpad, lived there, etc.

This might seem like a stupid question but I just thought I'd throw it out there... During the 30 days of self study, you are considered an employee and paid training wage, correct? On that note.... What is the pay during training?

Didn't you just get hired at SKW and start class in a couple of weeks? Thinking about jumping ship already? You're considered an employee because you have the job offer and do all the HR stuff if that's what you mean. Pay is crappy and you have to pinch pennies for the first 30 days because you get paid less than min guarantee. Once you come back from the 30 day home study you start getting paid guarantee. I don't remember the exact amount of hours you get paid for during the first 30 days. You could probably find it if you go back in the thread long enough or someone else can chime in who remembers.

Take home pay for the home study period winds up being around $450-500, IIRC. It's painful.

Gross, it works out to 50% of the time required (technically, the "FAA-assigned value of the training module") to complete the CBTs, per the contract. So, first-year scale times 50% of 48 hours, give or take a few.

(That 50% thing is the same for all distance learning, new-hire or not. The difference is you're not getting guarantee until you come back from home-study.)

You can get done in a couple of weeks if you knuckle down, so it's possible you could work something out to come back sooner than the 30 days allotted if there's space.

In the past, you could continue to fly at another job during the home study period. That has changed, apparently, although you can ask for permission to keep working elsewhere from the chief pilot. Dunno if you'll get it, but the provision is in there and our CPs are good dudes.

Bottom line, if it's gonna be an issue be proactive, talk to someone and see what you can work out. That holds true for pretty much everything here, btw.

That first month is rough. Everybody here has manged to get through it though. :-)