63 cancels - 50 for crew
03-17-2019 | 11:12 AM
#21
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From: C172 Captain
03-17-2019 | 11:14 AM
#22
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From: C172 Captain
03-17-2019 | 11:31 AM
#23
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From: It's a plane and it's a seat
How long have you been at Republic? There was a time (less then 5 years) that they were the “dumpster” fire of UAX. Their CBA was towards the bottom of the regional world.
The sooner you learn that everything is cyclical in the regional business and not to throw stones if you live in a glass house.
03-17-2019 | 11:34 AM
#24
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For most people flying hard, building time, and moving on is the priority. The things that you want are very understandable, but hard to demand when a company doesn’t own any of the routes and often times the equipment itself. The legacy airlines look at the regionals as a temp agency with pilots. As long as this is the business model, don’t expect a good QOL or to make much money. If you got the contract of your dreams, the flying would just shift to another group with lower cost. Personally I’d love to see the regionals leverage huge raises. That would erode the cost benefit of subbing out the flying and bring the flying back to mainline. I’m betting that neither of us get what we’d like to have.
03-17-2019 | 12:39 PM
#25
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From: C172 Captain
For most people flying hard, building time, and moving on is the priority. The things that you want are very understandable, but hard to demand when a company doesn’t own any of the routes and often times the equipment itself. The legacy airlines look at the regionals as a temp agency with pilots. As long as this is the business model, don’t expect a good QOL or to make much money. If you got the contract of your dreams, the flying would just shift to another group with lower cost. Personally I’d love to see the regionals leverage huge raises. That would erode the cost benefit of subbing out the flying and bring the flying back to mainline. I’m betting that neither of us get what we’d like to have.
03-17-2019 | 12:44 PM
#26
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From: Reclined seat
03-17-2019 | 12:58 PM
#27
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I would rather fly my ass off for a few years, get 1000 topic and move on to making a decent salary and having a good quality of life. But to each their own nothing wrong with delaying a $ 150k pay raise for 3 years of less flying and a long training footprint to make $10k more a year now.
03-17-2019 | 01:09 PM
#28
Perennial Reserve
Joined: Jan 2018
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Says the guy now locked in to a “safe” “high quality of life” regional, who will still be there long after his more ambitious fellows are accruing seniority at a legacy.
Last edited by Excargodog; 05-02-2019 at 02:52 PM.
03-17-2019 | 02:07 PM
#29
On Reserve
Joined: Jun 2017
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In the mean time, I believe Expressjet was the best possible option for me to go to advance my career toward working at a legacy / major airline in the shortest possible time. I'm glad they need aircrew, and I'll max out my time each month to make myself as competitive as possible for the big show.
03-17-2019 | 02:41 PM
#30
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From: C172 Captain
Get in, work hard, get your time, and move on. At an airline with 8+ year FOs... 🙄 Strong, strong, strong Kool-Aid.
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