aviatorhi

Commercial Multi.

No.

FAI or ANC, both bases are short.

Chief is doing interviews this week is what I heard today... hurry up and get your name in, if you don't hear back after 2 or 3 days call and ask you'll jump to the top of his pile of resumes that way.

aviatorhi

Oh and just today we announced that we're buying ERA on the 27th.

clearandcold

I can't imagine they will be hiring anyone now with the purchase of ERA.

aviatorhi

They will because I imagine most if not all of the Era 1900 drivers are going to be out on the street sooner or later.

clearandcold

Are you implying that they will quit or be let go? A frontier FO seems to do a lot better when it comes to pay than an ERA FO so I can't imagine they would quit, especially with the job market. I'm wondering if they are going to move the Dash 8's to FAI? Do you have any info?

aviatorhi

Info is always scarce around here, speculation says the Dash 8s will come here to fly FAI-OTZ, FAI-OME and FAI-BRW, with the fourth staying in ANC to hit the big markets once a day, but that's it, speculation, you never really know what they end up doing until you're sitting there doing it.

They will be quit of let go, they will be REQUIRED to do a lot of things they haven't done in a long time, if ever, including fueling their own planes at certain outstations, deicing themselves at certain outstations etc. etc. It would be a significant increase in pay for ERA FOs, but at the same time it would be a total switch of work environment.

Also RUMOR has it that they will be re-applying for their jobs in the first place. Also them being overstaffed (58 pilots for 7 airplanes... Frontier does 11 planes with less pilots currently), is not going to help.

AKfreighter

Frontier FOs make more than ERA FOs? I thought they were identical. A few years ago frontier fos made 15 or 16 an hour to start. I'm assuming captians do better at era. Best bet was to fly a navajo for frontier before the hageland merger. I hear both frontier and hageland pilots saying they make less now.

clearandcold

When you own all of the airlines you can pay the employees whatever you want. It's not like they can quit and go work for the competition.

Airhoss

Hey dude how do you legally do 163 hours in a month part 135? Part 91 ferry add on stuff I'm guessing?

Does Frontier still have the DO 228's for the smoke jumper contract?

clearandcold

8 hours per day max for single pilot
10 hours per day for 2 pilot crews
500 hours max in a quarter
800 hours max in 2 quarters
1400 hours per year total
Only required to have 13 days off per quarter