Whatever do you mean? We will take yours, and it will all be billed back to XJT as they have always done. SkyWest will show no costs associated to certifying the 175.

AnchorDown

 

Surprised no one's mentioned the director of Crew Scheduling is out and a SkyWest number cruncher is in!

 

I just got scheduled for the May 19th CRJ class in Atlanta.
I have also been offered a April 7th class with Endeavor Air in Minneapolis
And have a interview with American Eagle Tuesday morning.

Any input from current employees. Expressjet was my first choice but it sounds like things are so great there from reading the forum.

 

If XJT has a base where you don't have to commute, I don't see any reason why you would go to Endeavor or AE.

 

No regional I'd say has a for sure and secure future. Like the last comment, go to a carrier which has a base where you live, or has the easiest commute if you don't live in a base and don't wish to relocate. Oh, and if you go to Endeavor, it appears you would be based in NYC.

 

As said on this forum a million times, don't make your choice based on base. Regional bases open and close on a whim and generally the most desirable are super senior. Unless you live in Northern Virginia or Detroit don't come here (CRJ) hoping to be based at home as a new hire.

You should go to the regional with the fastest upward movement. Right now we are the bottom of that list!!!

 

Where you been they been working on this for almost six months. Right from the horses mouth CT. Well he's gone now but i'm sure their still working on the E Cert for XJT.

 

Didn't see this addressed for the ERJ side, but life on reserve is a joke. One long, infuriating, stupid, not terribly funny joke and "F&#@ your life is the punch line!"

-Rolled days off are pretty standard, at least one per month. You start with 11 or 12 days off (depends on the month) so loosing one or two of those really sucks. Per the contract, the company is supposed to restore them but they haven't been. Group grievance filed, still waiting for my days off back.

-You will see this company waste ridiculous amounts of money through their own inefficiency and sheer incompetence. And when you try to point out an error or a better solution, all you will get is blow back and "Atlantitude". Then they push an insulting TA across the table and tell you that YOU are the problem. YGTBSM.

-Your knowledge of the contract, your contractual rights and the FARs will be continually tested. It seems the company now looks at contractual limits and FARs as goals rather than absolute limits. In addition, as of late it seems they view their contractual obligations and your contractual rights as "grey areas" to be complied with when convenient.

-Yes. You will fly. They will fly the pants off you. Till you drop. And then wonder why fatigue calls are way up (I'd be happy to sit down and clue you in after I finish my 5-day reserve cluster of a trip...oh wait, my day just got rolled!) So if you want to fly as much as possible, have no fear! You will fly till you puke. Then be expected to get the plane back to the hub. (Disclaimer: This has been the norm for about the last 4 months, which I know have been rough for everyone due to this historic stint of bad weather.)

-Some months you will get a 4-day every block of reserve days, some months it will be a turn or a quick overnight but it seems no matter what, you will fly most days on-call. We have an aggressive pick-up system which is nice for those that want to fly.

-Reserve bidding is by PBS. It seems OK...so far, jury is still out though. I am fairly senior as far as reserves go and pretty regularly am able to hold the days off and call-out period that I want. Your mileage may very as a junior reserve, but the good news is that on the FO side, reserve seems to be less than a year.

Hope this provides some insight. Maybe staffing is tighter on the ERJ side than the CRJ but this seems to be par for the course since the merger. As I said, your mileage may vary.

 

Geezus, that's the dumbest advice.

Yeah, go ahead and go to where the upgrade appears quick, because we all know that upgrade never stop once they start.

Sarcasm aside, go where you can live in base. As someone who has commuted and lived in base, I can assure you that your life will suck commuting and will be much better living in base and driving to work.

 

The only thing I would like to add, is be prepared to be disrespected many times a day. By TSA, by gate agents, by the FA's, by the company and even your own union on occasion. As a regional pilot you are a second class citizen. In the United system some new hire ramper's great aunt has more priority in back than you do as a regional pilot who is trying to get to work to do the job. This is why commuting sucks so hard.

Finally, as a new hire reserve FO, you will get to fly with all the introverts, rejects, asocial, and other problem captains, because line holders will avoid them or dump them like the Enron stock. Don't let it get you down--it isn't you, it IS them.