OO screwed up. Promo video with 2 older dudes flying. Need two 25 year olds to show they don't have lifers. Like the regionals do during meet and greets. Always younger guys and gals. In all seriousness, it's a pretty cool video.

 

I was a OO "cadet pilot".

They positive space you in and you sit in with their new hire classes at first day on Indoc in SLC. Beautiful woman gives a presentation on the company, benefits including travel (which is way better than our travel), then they take your picture, thumb print, and drug test you, and do presentation and meet and greet with an assistant chief pilot where you can ask questions. I asked the ACP "so how long is upgrade time right now" he said "haha you don't have to worry about that! You'll be at mainline before you even upgrade!!"

Interviews are next day on the spot and they also let you keep your seniority date from the first cadet program you attend after getting a CJO. Free lunch, flashed a shiny Alaska E175 and 360 photo op and then positive space you home. Couple weeks later you get a hand-written thank you card from a recruiter and a crew cadet ID badge.

That's tough to compete with. How many 800 hour RATP CFI's are going to turn that down?

Side note: my 300 hour CFI friend is already traveling the world on travel benefits he somehow got from a GoJet cadet program. He's excited for his $75,000 first year pay there, too

 

And yet TSH hasn't thought to do a cadet program at Compass.

There are some simple improvements that can be made to help recruit pilots, like offering them travel benefits before they meet the hour requirements. But if you're paying near bottom of the barrel, travel won't be enough to distract someone from wanting to pay bills and debt from school.

Of course your CFI friend is excited about his "75k," even if it's not the full 75, its more than he'd make at Compass.

 

We have yet to experience a pilot shortage at Compass to the likes of all the other regionals. That's why up until now, no major incentives/carrots have been needed to be offered.

I don't think GoJet or TSH were happy with what they had to give in order to keep attracting pilots. For some reason, Compass is not quite there yet because we're still getting applications and like JS said, we're still able to be selective.

That luxury was soon going to go away....unless we got the PHX base. That's going to be a major game incentive moving forward and will most likely keep us from offering more, which is sad.

 

10K pilot referral bonus

 

Compass Airlines Raises First Year Pilot Pay to $41.00 per Flight Hour

 

This is horse ****! I like how you guys find his from a news article and the company hasn't even told us yet! WTF


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Its been on Comply since early this AM.

 

My bad, it's my day off and I don't do work related stuff. I retract my last post


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Don't blame you! Saw it on Facebook before I saw the PRF