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01-11-2016 | 09:50 PM
#3711
Living the Dream
Joined: Sep 2013
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Why no DFW CA spots lately? Is it going senior or will the IAD upgrades get over to DFW pretty quickly if they want to?
01-11-2016 | 10:03 PM
#3713
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2010
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Regarding the choice to join or not join Mesa: I wouldn't be as aggressively-worried about hitting my 1,000 hours TPIC as a career insurance policy if I were at Envoy/Endeavor/PSA/PDT--just saying. There's a whole lotta value in being at a wholly-owned: INSANELY better hotels (Hyatt/Westin/Marriott vs. LaQuinta, Microtel, Ramada, Days Inn in every city you sleep in), 20-30% better payrates across the board, and most of all a decent pathway to a "real" airline job where you're actually employed by the colors you're flying on your tail--that my friend is priceless.
01-12-2016 | 02:56 AM
#3714
Covfefe
Joined: Jun 2015
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This professor is out flying 100 hours a month to hit his 1,000 TPIC as a security policy, and so I can hound every friend and family member I have at SWA, Virgin, FDX, etc. to help me get into their club before the music stops.
Regarding the choice to join or not join Mesa: I wouldn't be as aggressively-worried about hitting my 1,000 hours TPIC as a career insurance policy if I were at Envoy/Endeavor/PSA/PDT--just saying. There's a whole lotta value in being at a wholly-owned: INSANELY better hotels (Hyatt/Westin/Marriott vs. LaQuinta, Microtel, Ramada, Days Inn in every city you sleep in), 20-30% better payrates across the board, and most of all a decent pathway to a "real" airline job where you're actually employed by the colors you're flying on your tail--that my friend is priceless.
Regarding the choice to join or not join Mesa: I wouldn't be as aggressively-worried about hitting my 1,000 hours TPIC as a career insurance policy if I were at Envoy/Endeavor/PSA/PDT--just saying. There's a whole lotta value in being at a wholly-owned: INSANELY better hotels (Hyatt/Westin/Marriott vs. LaQuinta, Microtel, Ramada, Days Inn in every city you sleep in), 20-30% better payrates across the board, and most of all a decent pathway to a "real" airline job where you're actually employed by the colors you're flying on your tail--that my friend is priceless.
01-12-2016 | 06:56 AM
#3715
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2014
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This professor is out flying 100 hours a month to hit his 1,000 TPIC as a security policy, and so I can hound every friend and family member I have at SWA, Virgin, FDX, etc. to help me get into their club before the music stops.
Regarding the choice to join or not join Mesa: I wouldn't be as aggressively-worried about hitting my 1,000 hours TPIC as a career insurance policy if I were at Envoy/Endeavor/PSA/PDT--just saying. There's a whole lotta value in being at a wholly-owned: INSANELY better hotels (Hyatt/Westin/Marriott vs. LaQuinta, Microtel, Ramada, Days Inn in every city you sleep in), 20-30% better payrates across the board, and most of all a decent pathway to a "real" airline job where you're actually employed by the colors you're flying on your tail--that my friend is priceless.
Regarding the choice to join or not join Mesa: I wouldn't be as aggressively-worried about hitting my 1,000 hours TPIC as a career insurance policy if I were at Envoy/Endeavor/PSA/PDT--just saying. There's a whole lotta value in being at a wholly-owned: INSANELY better hotels (Hyatt/Westin/Marriott vs. LaQuinta, Microtel, Ramada, Days Inn in every city you sleep in), 20-30% better payrates across the board, and most of all a decent pathway to a "real" airline job where you're actually employed by the colors you're flying on your tail--that my friend is priceless.
01-12-2016 | 07:11 AM
#3716
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Joined: Jan 2015
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DFW, IAD, and PHX are all senior on the CA side. Theres enough lifers at Mesa to keep anyone with a global number of the mid 500's to be on reserve this time of year. Some of us had lines past few months in DFW, but a few senior CA's went from IAD to DFW to test the waters. Perhaps if you were one of the first new hires in early 2013, you might have a line on the crj. Ejet is a different story but I would be on reserve over there as well this time of the year. Mesa simply needs one more CRJ base and it will spread the senior CA's thin enough to give many newer CA's lines. All this consolidation isn't helping QOL.
01-12-2016 | 11:36 AM
#3717
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Joined: Dec 2010
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The world has changed--I don't want to trust Parker anymore than the next guy, but I really do think he's going to hire those wholly-owned pilots--not because he cares, but because it's a cynical business decision to have a steady, controllable stream of staffing.
Comair happened in a world wo 121.436, 1500 hours rule, record oil prices prior to the fracking revolution, on the heels of the worst recession since the Depression--dissuading someone from going to a wholly-owned today based on Comair in the early 2000s is a bit absurd imho.
01-12-2016 | 12:06 PM
#3718
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Joined: Nov 2015
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From: Freight 75/76 FO
Today I was trying to pick up open time. I was able to select the trips I wanted on Flica, but after a couple of hours I got denied because one of them touched the last 7 days of the bid period. I went back to the request board and noticed that all of the trips on the last 7 days of the bidding period were no longer selectable. Crew Line Adjustment told me I could try again after the 23rd. Can someone please explain to me the bidding schedule when it comes to picking up open time? Is this because they are building the next month pairings right now and they donīt want too many people picking up carryover trips?
01-12-2016 | 12:45 PM
#3719
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Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 688
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Today I was trying to pick up open time. I was able to select the trips I wanted on Flica, but after a couple of hours I got denied because one of them touched the last 7 days of the bid period. I went back to the request board and noticed that all of the trips on the last 7 days of the bidding period were no longer selectable. Crew Line Adjustment told me I could try again after the 23rd. Can someone please explain to me the bidding schedule when it comes to picking up open time? Is this because they are building the next month pairings right now and they donīt want too many people picking up carryover trips?
01-12-2016 | 01:10 PM
#3720
Line Holder
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 740
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So, iad went incredibly junior, and they didn't fill the 12 captain spots. Either there was no one else willing to go to Dulles or they reduced the captain vacancy.
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