No sweat though, you got Joboo on your side!

It was explained to me that a few years back a law change allowed companies to charge up to $100 for the release of PRIA documents. The company requesting the documents could either pay the fee or simple wait out a short period of time after which the company releasing the documents was required to send them whether they got paid or not.

Basically, most of the scumbag regional operators would charge the fee and then wait to see if they would get paid. I think the time frame was 30 days, after which the company was required to send the info with or without payment.

Why not send a text that requires a coded reply like they do with ACARS? That way they would confirm you received the text and ack'd the assignment. I'm sure they are working on this stuff it will just take time but would make great strides for those of us on RSV. :D

Jet, because some guys would claim they did not receive it. It is not the inability to send the message, it is the inability for the company to confirm the message was read. Add to it, pilots and FA's could claim they never got it, so therein lies the issue.

Doing what you state means that you would confirm you got the message, but what about those pilots that did not like the message or truly did not receive it?

It would be the same as a missed phone call or an unreturned voicemail, they would have to try other means. The text msg thing would have to be a voluntary thing on the part of the individual pilot. IE, you would have to sign up for it in icrew (or somewhere else). If there was no number listed in a pilot's info to text a schedule change they would have to call your contact number, call your arrival gate, use ACARS, etc. I'm saying we keep the normal means of contact we have now and just add this as a voluntary program to save time and/or money.

If you didn't want to accept the schedule change or had a problem with it, you could simply call them back and state your case.

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I also interviewed the last week of July as well and am still waiting on the clear to train e-mail. I was told at the interview however that some states take a long time in getting back to requests on driving records or anything else they may have, as do some companies take a long time to return any inquiries. I guess my state and company fail in all departments. :eek: I have heard through the grapevine however, that we are all suppose to be in the last class of October (those that interviewed that final week). Excited to get on board and would really like the e-mail and phone call to get the ball rolling.

Agreed, SMS falls in to the "nice to have" category.

I interviewed on June 26 and got the "ok to train" today...FWIW

Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad. If this phone call doesn't happen by the end of this month I think I'll have to sacrifice a whole chicken. On a lighter note, it's nice to hear that some of the other late July interviewees are also still playing the waiting game.
I think that "adopt a pilot" program that was mentioned earlier sounds like a great program. Especially for military guys that don't know a lot about the workings of an airline. Thanks for the support all!

Are the early August new-hires gonna stay in the pool while the flowthroughs replace the retirements for the next 5 years?