New Hire Class Drops
10-19-2021 | 05:55 PM
#571
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10-19-2021 | 06:13 PM
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From: Slingin' Gear and Drinkin' Beer
Unless you are awarded Captain within that timeframe, then it’s waived (remainder added to new freeze).
Edit to add: there is another exception in the PWA after 12 months if transferring bases. 22.G.2
10-19-2021 | 07:39 PM
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Yeah, so if you get A220s you can switch to ATL anything after 12 months, because the A220 is not in ATL. But any seat lock you had left gets added to your new seat lock. So if you went to ATL 73NB after 12 months on the 220, you’d then have 12 months added to your new seat lock.
10-20-2021 | 01:12 AM
#576
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10-20-2021 | 03:46 AM
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I think they plan on classes of 40-50 pretty much every week now for a long time, except maybe skipping one or two weeks around the holidays.
10-20-2021 | 08:59 AM
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Noobs have a seat lock, not a category lock.
10-20-2021 | 11:52 AM
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So it IS a category lock with some caveats (as I mentioned) which make it closer to a seat lock in some cases.
10-20-2021 | 03:35 PM
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I’m not looking to get into a semantics argument in any way, but this is a direct quote from the PWA, “An entry level pilot will incur a 24-month category freeze”.
So it IS a category lock with some caveats (as I mentioned) which make it closer to a seat lock in some cases.
So it IS a category lock with some caveats (as I mentioned) which make it closer to a seat lock in some cases.
I will agree that an "entry level pilot" does have a category lock IAW with PWA 22.G.2
However, PWA defines "Entry Level Pilot" as a pilot that hasn't finished initial OE...once you finished IOE, you are no longer an entry level pilot.
And, take a look at this recent AE results....hell there are entry level pilots on that list that haven't even started IOE yet (EDV flow) and they went from NYC to ATL.
The M.O of the company is they treat it as a 24 month seat lock, not a category lock.
I will write to my LEC to recommend that inconsistency / confusion in that language get cleaned up.
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