DirkDiggler

Don’t forget the $23.05/hr first year pay or the two HUGE checks of $750 during training. How the industry has changed.

Someone was telling me every two weeks the company takes all the new hires out somewhere with a full open bar and nice dinner. Not sure how true that is.

Arliss

I've never heard about that. They may be referring to the dinner that the recruiting team take the new hire class to about a week into training. It's just once for each class. I had that a few years ago; they took us to the Salt Grass steak house. Great dinner, no open bar tho, but I'm sure not complaining.

Av8tor8710

If I missed this, my bad.

Likelihood of being able to get TYS out of training and reserve time?

Erj135dude

Apparently you can get any base out of training except for Tyson.

Av8tor8710

Of course that’d be the case 🤦*♂️. Lol, appreciate it 🤙

headhunter

I'm an EWR FO: started 21May18. I was SC reserve through Feb, held a reserve line in March, LC reserve in April, and holding a line this month and in June.

The switch from short on FOs to short on CAs happened in March, so block time is getting lower for reserve FOs. That said, hopefully the new hire/upgrade machine will continue to spin up and this airline will start to move closer to what other regionals look like over the next year, in that the move from new hire FO on reserve, to line holder, to upgrade will shrink down to something under 3 years. XJT just absorbed the last of the ASA captains over to the 145, so the normal FO to CA upgrades should restart relatively soon. I'm hoping to be upgrading by this time next year, if I haven't moved on.

Erj135dude

Thanks for the info!. How much did you fly while on reserve?

PeakEGT

Correct l, seems like every class for the last month have been awarded their first choice.

headhunter

Quite a bit compared to most other regionals: I logged 500 hours from early August when I started flying through early March when I held a line the first time. But March is also when we went short on captains and now the typical reserve FO is flying less as far as I can tell. Generally there’s a lot less red flag flying available now.

All of that said, a regional is a regional. They all suck compared to a legacy. If you’re a young pilot that needs to get jet time, and turbine PIC time, you’re probably going to have to put in at least three or four years at a regional to build the time that you need. I think at this point that XJT is the last major regional to hit an upswing; it seems most all of the others are already FO saturated. Yes, they are hiring, but it’s going to take you a while to get a start date, get through training, etc. The big disparities between regionals that existed even a year ago are starting to lessen and mostly cease.

Erj135dude

All this makes sense. And I also have the impression that most of the regionals are getting FO fat now.
I'm going to Dallas to take care of my CTP on June 5th, and class right after that, so we'll see how it goes, I bring a load of optimism lol.
But I have no idea about which base I'm gonna bid, hopefully they'll offer some insight/data once I start training and decide from there.