I think there is a little more to it than just TPIC time homie.

 

No sh!t.

Hire a bunch of otherwise unemployable college dropouts with DUI's and 709's and why would you expect anything less.

 

Hmm. I wonder why????????

 

Tons of CAs at regionals who don't have their apps in at the majors. Mesa just happens to be senior with many guys happy where they are. It doesn't matter what regional you fly for. Reason why all the majors dropped the 1000TPIC requirement. I know many guys getting hired without TPIC but have something else such as int'l experience or masters degrees but I think the most important thing are the internals.

 

If you're unavailable a third time, you're probably going to have a carpet dance, in which your chief pilot is probably going to want a really good explanation of what the problem with your commute is, and how you plan on fixing it.

They're reasonable guys--if you have legitimate reasons for missing a commute they aren't going to burn you for it. But if you're exceeding the limits of the policy constantly b/c you're cutting it close and/or not paying attention to the weather/loads/etc., they're going to be like "hey, friend-o, what's the deal here?"

 

Overgeneralize much?

 

How's this sound: "I keep getting bumped by Envoy and ExpressJet pilots. How are those AA mainline nonrev bennies coming along?" Reasonable?

 

You're an idiot.

We're one of the smallest, most junior pilot groups in the US 121 world, and we have lots of people who don't have college degrees, who started out at CC Air/Air Midwest way back when.

I'm assuming you're one of those people without a college education, since you don't seem to comprehend that attrition numbers represent a statistical sample of a pilot group.

If you filter out:

a) people with no 4-year degree from a "real" college (University of Phoenix/online diploma mills don't count)

b) people who do not want to leave

and

c) people with less than 3,000 hours total time/1,000 TPIC (which is essentially >60% of the seniority list at this moment in time)

...I am very certain our attrition-to-better-jobs numbers--on a percentage basis--are equal to or better than any US 121 regional.

Quit if you hate it here so much. Especially if you're a Captain senior to me on the EJet.

 

DeVry and online college mills are no good? Wouldn't that wipe out half the regional guys? Most senior folks at the Regionals don't have a college degree.

 

FaceBiter,
I thought that you were going to stop posting on here...