For those of you wondering about the may class, if your in it I heard through the grape vine you should get confirmation sent to you by the 15th...that's all I know.

I read someone wrote "you're funny" or something similar and being that I just watched Commando prior, I did the picture just as a joke. I also wasn't making a comment towards you about bashing, towards people in general. FYI, I don't wear panties, I go commando style.

Seems to be the SOP around here, those that are on the front lines are left out in the dark until the last possible moment. I keep hearing rumors about the potential happenings, but until we have airplanes flying from some of these places, I take everything with a HUGE grain of salt, but I'm hopeful on some of them.

I hope it's a good thing too, but for those of us in the first few classes I think we had some good timing.

:I was at the job fair 5/3/2012. Overall, a positive experience. Video was well made. All questions were answered. There was some discussion about new routes, which will be contingent on a mainline code share. It seems that there are more flying opportunities than their system can absorb. Hiring numbers that I recall, were up to 80 additional pilots by year end, if certain new routes materialize.

I just doesn't make sense to me. Why do they think they can get an airline agreement with United/Delta when those airlines are trying to get rid of the routes/agreements with Colgan, etc?

Because mainline outsourced the flying to Colgan, they paid Colgan to do the flying. With Silver it sounds like a code share where Sylver will assume all costs and share revenue with the mainline by the mainline selling tickets on Silver aircraft. Slapping a United code on that flight, there is a difference between code share and outsourcing to a regional!!!

WRONG.

All Colgan SAAB flying was at-risk. Colgan set all ticket prices, paid for fuel, landing fees.

We couldn't make money with the cost of fuel.

Good luck.

So Colgan sold the tickets on their website? Did Colgan fly their own colors or the mainlines. United, Delta and US Aiways outsourced the flyig to Colgan (the contract was at risk but still was outsourced). By the sounds of it Silver wants to fly their own colors and "code share" just like GLA!

No - Colgan decided on where it wanted to fly and asked Airways, United for the codeshares. They marketed the flying as United Express.

Mainline partners did not outsource Saab flying.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the case of the Colgan saab flying, this is how is works.

Colgan operates as if they are an independent airline assuming all costs with the flying and the aircraft fly under the Colgan livery. Colgan then creates a basic code-share agreement with mainline United and US Airways. Us Airways and United use their code share to help sell tickets on the Colgan flights and thus United and US airways get a cut of the profits that Colgan makes from the code-share flights. This is different from what you would call Fee-for-departure or outsourced flying right? And, wouldn't this be a more respectable business model from a pilot perspective?