Hiring / training
#2391
#2392
#2393
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2014
Position: Lineholder
Posts: 1,317
Some will stay. Most will leave unless the contract is on par with the legacies. Most of the people coming from the cadet programs are very young. To stay at a ULCC under current contracts vs going to a legacy will cost them MILLIONS over their career. Not to mention the total lack of operational support relative to the legacies. Why would anyone do that?
#2395
Junior? No. Able to hold right away? Very possibly. Any new hire should be able to get any base they want in short order. How quickly they’ll move up the list, hold a line, etc. is a different story.
#2396
On Reserve
Joined APC: Nov 2017
Position: Full time contractor
Posts: 15
Thanks. I'm local in DEN so I really don't care how long I sit on reserve. Just want to get base where I live. I have had the experience of commuting to a Regional job. Never again.
#2397
You bet. I looked at the seniority list. Most Junior DEN FO is a July ‘21 hire. So, it wasn’t too long out of training for them to hold it.
#2398
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2015
Position: ce560
Posts: 231
I do agree with that and this is why we need to make sure we all are on the same page and sink this merger ship with no votes until the contract and pay rates ensure that many will stay. This merger could very well put the combined company on a track to become the next Southwest in the future. The only way that will happen though is if new pilots can see it as another Southwest. The only way for that to happen is $$$.
I have full faith and confidence that together we can achieve a contract comparable to the big 4.
I wish I could give my offers to someone who wants them. I was planning on typing my two weeks notice this week, what timing.
Leverage is strongly on our side, and these two groups are solid as they come and thirsty.
Let’s make it happen.
#2399
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2022
Posts: 445
Potential new hire questions
Hello everyone. I have a few questions about F9 that I’m wondering if anyone could answer.
1) is a hotel provided for training, as well as min guarantee pay?
2) what is the average age of the pilot group?
3) I have heard F9 was doing a lot of day trips, will that hold true after the merger? Is there any info on that. I’ll be a commuter so I do NOT want many day trips
4) anything else I should know or be aware of before accepting a class date? I understand this is subjective, but I know little about the company as of now. Is it somewhere you’d recommend for someone who has 35+ years left to fly?
5) also how many retirements does F9 anticipate over the next decade?
1) is a hotel provided for training, as well as min guarantee pay?
2) what is the average age of the pilot group?
3) I have heard F9 was doing a lot of day trips, will that hold true after the merger? Is there any info on that. I’ll be a commuter so I do NOT want many day trips
4) anything else I should know or be aware of before accepting a class date? I understand this is subjective, but I know little about the company as of now. Is it somewhere you’d recommend for someone who has 35+ years left to fly?
5) also how many retirements does F9 anticipate over the next decade?
#2400
Almost there
Joined APC: Apr 2021
Posts: 1,051
Hello everyone. I have a few questions about F9 that I’m wondering if anyone could answer.
1) is a hotel provided for training, as well as min guarantee pay?
2) what is the average age of the pilot group?
3) I have heard F9 was doing a lot of day trips, will that hold true after the merger? Is there any info on that. I’ll be a commuter so I do NOT want many day trips
4) anything else I should know or be aware of before accepting a class date? I understand this is subjective, but I know little about the company as of now. Is it somewhere you’d recommend for someone who has 35+ years left to fly?
5) also how many retirements does F9 anticipate over the next decade?
1) is a hotel provided for training, as well as min guarantee pay?
2) what is the average age of the pilot group?
3) I have heard F9 was doing a lot of day trips, will that hold true after the merger? Is there any info on that. I’ll be a commuter so I do NOT want many day trips
4) anything else I should know or be aware of before accepting a class date? I understand this is subjective, but I know little about the company as of now. Is it somewhere you’d recommend for someone who has 35+ years left to fly?
5) also how many retirements does F9 anticipate over the next decade?
1) No/Yes 75 hour guarantee
2/5) Young…I don’t have specifics. Not much. Our seniority growth depends almost exclusively on airline growth and attrition which just probably slowed down.
3) It’s true. It’s base dependent and a quick scan through the threads has it laid out per base. My thought for you is plan for the worst and hope for the best in that regard.
4)There is a lot in the air and nothing is guaranteed but the future got extremely bright this week. We just don’t exactly know what that will look like.
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