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11-07-2014 | 08:41 AM
#5021
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From: FO
Hey guys... ExpressJet 2 year FO looking to get back to LAX so I'm considering applying to Compass.
I COULD spend a great part of my day off scrolling 500 pages of this thread, but figure I'll just ask my own questions and hope someone would be kind enough to offer me the most current information without chastising me and telling me to research the thread. LOL
1) How sr/jr is LAX? Could I expect it relatively easily after training?
2) You need to provide your own housing for training? Are there cheap places someone could recommend?
3) Do you have pay protection in your contract? (ie: block or better / cx pay?)
4) Is there a line improvement window or trip trading after the monthly schedules are awarded by PBS?
5) 11 days off is the contractual minimum. How common is that awarded by PBS? Could one expect to have more days off? How much tenure do you need to have before expecting more days off (I think I read someone posted they get 17 days off with productive 5-day trips)
6) Has the company in the past offered any signing bonuses?
I think think that is all I have for now. I appreciate anyone taking the time to humor with a reply.
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I COULD spend a great part of my day off scrolling 500 pages of this thread, but figure I'll just ask my own questions and hope someone would be kind enough to offer me the most current information without chastising me and telling me to research the thread. LOL
1) How sr/jr is LAX? Could I expect it relatively easily after training?
2) You need to provide your own housing for training? Are there cheap places someone could recommend?
3) Do you have pay protection in your contract? (ie: block or better / cx pay?)
4) Is there a line improvement window or trip trading after the monthly schedules are awarded by PBS?
5) 11 days off is the contractual minimum. How common is that awarded by PBS? Could one expect to have more days off? How much tenure do you need to have before expecting more days off (I think I read someone posted they get 17 days off with productive 5-day trips)
6) Has the company in the past offered any signing bonuses?
I think think that is all I have for now. I appreciate anyone taking the time to humor with a reply.
P
2.) Yes, but some newhires are going to STL for sims and the company will provide hotel there.
3.)Yup, B or B, and trip guarantee (our version of cx pay)
4.) Yes it is called Schedule adjustment period.
5.) It depends on how productive the trips are. Some people near the bottom get great schedules, as there are only so many trips left to assign I remember getting 77 hours 16 day off line a couple times when I was bidding 80%. While people at 50% were getting 90 hour lines and 12 days off. If in the middle plane 11-14 off an 90 hours, we are going to be short with new planes coming.
6.) HAHAHAHA, nope. Not going to happen anytime soon either. Plenty of apps in the pile.
11-07-2014 | 09:19 AM
#5022
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From: Bent Over
Thanks Blue Moon!!
Oh..one last question. EFB's do you have them? or lugging around a flight case?
Oh..one last question. EFB's do you have them? or lugging around a flight case?
11-07-2014 | 08:04 PM
#5026
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Company Jepp subscription expires in February so iPad implementation past the test phase is near. Now running a new hire class every week, 10 per class. Upgrade frequency to increase subsequently because it takes much longer to spin up a new hire.
11-07-2014 | 10:14 PM
#5027
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From: FO
Anyone heard rumors of how bidding will work for aa/dl flying. I have heard one pairing you might fly aa and the next might be dl, but heard today that you will bid for an entire month of aa or dl flying. I might not be thinking of all angles but bidding for an entire month sounds bad because you never know what people ahead of you are bidding and one month you might be senior/junior depending on what people above you bid.
Last edited by jarretk; 11-07-2014 at 10:48 PM.
11-07-2014 | 11:08 PM
#5028
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Just submitted my app to CPZ. Any words of wisdom? Anything helpful? A newbie to the 121 world, that's if I'm hired...
11-08-2014 | 02:25 AM
#5029
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Once you have been invited to the interview getting ahold of a Delta interview gouge and it will help with the testing quite a bit.
11-08-2014 | 04:18 AM
#5030
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Hey Compass Peeps; rumor is that RAH's former DO just went to Compass? Name is Jeff Davis. Any truth to that rumor? If so, we apologize in advance. That guy will lie straight to your face. No integrity at all. Hope it's just a rumor; he was recently fired.
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