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Old 04-27-2014 | 10:31 AM
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Was curious who else has started receiving letters from desperate regionals.......
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Old 04-27-2014 | 10:32 AM
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I got a letter from Great Lakes on Thursday.
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Old 04-27-2014 | 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Hawker Driver
Was curious who else has started receiving letters from desperate regionals.......
I think you mean more-aggressive-than-ever-before regionals, but not desperate. Desperate means higher pay. Perhaps mid-fifties for a first year regional FO, plus an annual raise for every year of additional service. More advertising effort is not what I would call desperate.
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Old 04-27-2014 | 12:55 PM
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I think you mean more-aggressive-than-ever-before regionals, but not desperate. Desperate means higher pay. Perhaps mid-fifties for a first year regional FO, plus an annual raise for every year of additional service. More advertising effort is not what I would call desperate.
Agreed. We will see desperation in 12-24 months. The current situation is a mere precursor to the realization of regional management's failure to plan ahead...
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Old 04-27-2014 | 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Cubdriver
I think you mean more-aggressive-than-ever-before regionals, but not desperate. Desperate means higher pay. Perhaps mid-fifties for a first year regional FO, plus an annual raise for every year of additional service. More advertising effort is not what I would call desperate.
.....................Well put gentlemen!
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Old 04-27-2014 | 05:13 PM
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I got a letter from Great Lakes on Thursday.

HA ha.. Me too!

I almost wanted to reply just to mess with them.
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Old 04-27-2014 | 05:45 PM
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Was curious who else has started receiving letters from desperate regionals.......
Got a friend who got cold called by republic and he didn't even apply. They said he knew he had atp mins but he already has a class date with envoy.....wow......
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Old 04-27-2014 | 06:52 PM
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Called, and emailed by a few of the bottom feeder jets. Oddly not some of the even more bottom feeder Tprop airlines.
GLA may have emailed me but i have all their emials going to my spam folder automatically.
Iv never even applied to any of them. I think from doing one add on cfi cert one weekend at ATP they have my contact info from pilot pool or whatever its called.
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Old 04-27-2014 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Cubdriver
I think you mean more-aggressive-than-ever-before regionals, but not desperate. Desperate means higher pay. Perhaps mid-fifties for a first year regional FO, plus an annual raise for every year of additional service. More advertising effort is not what I would call desperate.
In that case C5 would be the most desperate of all....

They are the first in the country to raise the first year FO pay by almost 40%....
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Old 04-27-2014 | 07:41 PM
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I get a lot of emails from XJet, almost once a week.
The content ranges from asking me to "update my flight time", "keep building more flight time" & more recently to "complete the airline apps"..

I keep getting emails from Commut air asking me to email pilot recruiting stating "willing to interview" to receive a pre-screening phone call...

Three un-solicited email invites from Republic, I never applied to them...
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