How do you accrue these PTO hours? Do you "earn" a couple of hours for every day you work or something like that? Sorry never heard of this before.

PTO (Personal Time Off) very common at many employers now. They can be used for paid sick days or as vacation days. Earned on a monthly basis. Pretty much how you would earn regular vacation days. Each paycheck will show the amount. The amount you earn each year increases with company longevity.

Instead of X sick days and Y vacation days per year you get X+Y=PTO per year

PTO is accrued each month based on your longevity with the company.

New Hire - 1 Year = 10hrs per month
1-2 Years = 11.33hrs per month
3-9 Years = 14.66hrs per month
10+ Years = 18hrs per month

We get paid twice per month (15th/30th) and monthly PTO accrual is split evenly between each pay period (e.g. 5hrs on the 15th, and another 5 on the 30th).

8hrs = 1 PTO Day Off (Vacation, Sick, Personal Day, etc), so you basically get 15, 17, 22, or 27 days of PTO accrual per year, based on your longevity. You can bank up to 320hrs, or 40 days. There currently is no policy for selling back your PTO days to supplement income, but that will hopefully change in the near future.

At what point do you get your training schedule and location? Is it the beginning of indoc when you learn your plane type? The end? After?

You'll be assigned a training start date during the phone call with HR welcoming you to the team. Training starts with onboarding, which I believe is still being done via Zoom. A day or so prior to onboarding, you'll receive a care package from the company with your company iPhone, CC, and some company swag/goodies. Onboarding takes 2 days, again via Zoom, with a day off after, then travel to Dallas for Indoc (e.g. Onboarding Thursday-Friday, off Saturday, travel to Dallas Sunday, start Indoc on Monday). When you arrive to the classroom on day 1 of Indoc, your aircraft assignment will be on your nameplate on the desk, along with your company iPad. Indoc lasts 7 full days, afterwards some people will stay in Dallas for sim/type training there at the CAE facility, but most people will travel to Orlando for sim/type training at SIMCOM. Sim/type training took just under 20 days, then you get a minimum of 7 days off at home before starting IOE.

Thank you! This is incredibly helpful. I had heard 3-5 weeks for initial type training; this sounds great. Do you know when you find out if you're in Dallas or MCO for type training?

legacy MCO

challenger/phenom mix of DFW/MCO

To add to the confusion, they’re still using DFW for some Legacy training events as MCO can’t handle the workload. I’ve got my long recurrent at DFW scheduled for June already.

You'll find out a couple days into Indoc whether you'll be headed to MCO or staying at DFW.

Background check
 

Has anyone had issues with the background checks? They keep asking for extra information such as W2s, Paystubs and im worried that might delay my class date