Hey all, trying to get an idea of how long the hiring freeze was. Heard it was a solid 8-9 months where EDV didn't hire any pilots. With the new classes filling up, I'm trying to gauge future reserve time.

Any place I can find the number of FO's hired each month for the last 12 months?

 

It was 30-40 a month except starting late May when it dropped to about 10 every 2 weeks. Now it sounds like it’s back to 50-60 a month at least by late July/August. We never stopped hiring per se, just interviewing and a short lived slowdown in hiring this summer. All in all we have hired 200 so far this year.

 

Do you guys ever have good/long overnights in interesting places where you can actually enjoy yourself? Is it mostly short overnights in hotels near the airport next to a highway?

 

Hard to enjoy those overnights with your awesome pay at CPZ

 

I didn't know you fly that far West. Which hub are these flights coming from?

 

Don't get trolled.

 

Unless you get the long, which are kinda hard to come by, a good portion of our overnights suck location wise. A lot like what you said, hotels in business parks, middle of no where near the airport etc. some of the new overnights coming out of Atlanta are not bad. But overall the hotel language in the contract needs a compete overhaul. 200 overnights are usually on the shorter side, like 11-13 hours and 900 is more like 13-15. Not uncommon to get 17-19. Cant speak for like holders how much they get he long stay which is 20+.

Biggest issue is the FA always seem to get a big say in where we stay or move to. And their opinion is basically a 2 minute van ride and microwaves in the room and a Waffle House to walk to. Where as most of the pilots wouldn’t mind a 10-15 minute ride where there is things to do or eat at. We do have some pretty good overnights though. JAX ans AGS come to mind. Others aren’t bad. But I’ve come to think of a gas station that has a subway in it as a luxury on overnights now

 

mpet is encouraging you to apply to Compass despite its questionable future.

 

mpet thanks for the mature response. I'm sure you're a pleasure to fly with.

 

DCA and LGA are relatively convenient to public transportation and are close to downtowns. LGA is also around the corner from Citi Field. ROC has a couple of cool museums that are a long walk or short Uber away. The Crowne Plaza at MSP is on the Metro; downtown Minnie is at one end (rent a bike and ride the lakes, or watch a ball game) and the Mall of America is at the other end (shop or people watch).

MSN and CLE are cool, too... you can measure how drafty the windows are by counting how many inches the curtains move when the wind blows.