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Old 03-13-2019, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by chrisreedrules View Post
With bonuses and per diem included, I grossed right under $95K on year 4 CA pay at PSA. And I just counted, 178 days off in 2018. Other pilots mileage may vary, I was hired at a pretty good time and enjoyed rapid movement up the seniority list as the company grew. So results may not be typical, I’m not sure.
4 year CA pay at Via is $96,500 base salary to show up. That’s without a single day of overtime or playing the schedules to pick stuff up. Without commuting, without being the junior CA and needing a crashpad again, while keeping all your air miles and hotel points.

Oh, and that’s $96,500 salary, not including per diem. Want to include that, it becomes $103,700 for 4th year CA at $600 a month per diem. At $500 a month per diem it would be $102,500 at 4th year.

Plenty of opportunity for overtime, or extra over rides for checkairman or instructor stuff
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Old 03-13-2019, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Cujo665 View Post
4 year CA pay at Via is $96,500 base salary to show up. That’s without a single day of overtime or playing the schedules to pick stuff up. Without commuting, without being the junior CA and needing a crashpad again, while keeping all your air miles and hotel points.

Oh, and that’s $96,500 salary, not including per diem. Want to include that, it becomes $103,700 for 4th year CA at $600 a month per diem. At $500 a month per diem it would be $102,500 at 4th year.

Plenty of opportunity for overtime, or extra over rides for checkairman or instructor stuff
That’s really not bad! How many days off do you average in a month? I have a friend in Orlando that’s interested but doesn’t know anyone over there. He wants to (hopefully) be home most nights as he has young kids.

I’m honest with people about recommending places. For what he wants it’s hard for me to recommend most regionals. PSA still offers lots of opportunities but it isn’t for everyone. Lots of reserve to look forward to for any new hire right now. I told him Allegiant but I don’t think he has the quals to be competitive.
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Old 03-13-2019, 10:39 AM
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That’s really not bad! How many days off do you average in a month? I have a friend in Orlando that’s interested but doesn’t know anyone over there. He wants to (hopefully) be home most nights as he has young kids.
It’s schefuled 12. You’ll get 30 hour breaks during your trip as well, but they aren’t part of the 12 days. The SFB Base is (was) mostly all day trips on the E145. I haven’t been at Via for many months now, but I still stay in touch. If he lives in Base, with RSV days and the inevitable cancellations he’ll be home a lot, including pretty much mostly day trips anyway. If he’s typed on E145 there is (was) a $5k bonus also. If he has significant E145 experience they will hire him as a street CA.
When I was in SFB we did two days of day trips, had one or two days off, then two more days of days trips.... rinse & repeat.
They will DH you over to fly in AUS too. It’s a busier schedule there and not as refined as SFB with jetbridges and GPU everywhere. That’s when you rack up air and hotel points the most. They have a nice condo they use for new hires. Three bedroom 2.5 bath.

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Old 03-14-2019, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by DABAviator View Post
What are the minimums for pt135 on the 120? And do they still fly the 120 out of SFB? What's pay and schedule like on it? Thanks
500/25ME - they will take a bit lower on ME.

24K starting, cannot comment on the schedule though I believe all is out of SFB now.
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Originally Posted by Cujo665 View Post
4 year CA pay at Via is $96,500 base salary to show up. That’s without a single day of overtime or playing the schedules to pick stuff up. Without commuting, without being the junior CA and needing a crashpad again, while keeping all your air miles and hotel points.

Oh, and that’s $96,500 salary, not including per diem. Want to include that, it becomes $103,700 for 4th year CA at $600 a month per diem. At $500 a month per diem it would be $102,500 at 4th year.

Plenty of opportunity for overtime, or extra over rides for checkairman or instructor stuff
What about a contract? Heard there is a one year commitment if you have a 145 type or pay 9k upon your early exit. What about those who don't have a type rating? With a growing company, they would want people to stick around to help add stability to their growth plans. Makes sense to me anyways.
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Originally Posted by Beeman68 View Post
What about a contract? Heard there is a one year commitment if you have a 145 type or pay 9k upon your early exit. What about those who don't have a type rating? With a growing company, they would want people to stick around to help add stability to their growth plans. Makes sense to me anyways.
I agree, I don’t know what they think they’re doing with a training contract. Nobody will sign those these days. When I was there it was $5k and I drew a line through it, striking it from the employee contract, dated and initialed it. Hired.

If I already had a type, I wouldn’t sign any training contract. Heck, in this environment even if I didn’t have the type I wouldn’t sign it.
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Interesting

https://www.khou.com/article/news/lo...2-63ff7e4abfe7
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Doesn't mean anything one way or the other. Windshields fail on all aircraft types. It must have been a slow news day.
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Looks like they are cancelling service because of the pilot shortage:

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_ro...d5ca38635.html
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer View Post
Looks like they are cancelling service because of the pilot shortage:

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_ro...d5ca38635.html

As I’ve said many times... there currently is no pilot shortage. There is a shortage of pilots willing to leave their current professions for what regionals are offering.

That said, globally we will shortly be entering a period where there physically are not enough pilots for all available positions. We aren’t there yet, it’s still a pay - work rules - quality of life issue keeping the seats empty. The regionals that are paying, with good rules and working conditions are getting pilots.
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