Lobsters as well

Contract?
 

I wanted to know if contour has a training contract and if so how long is it and how much is it for?

someone posted this on Reddit recently. Step 1: Fly for Contour as a FO.

Step 2: Upgrade to Captain at ATP mins ($20K bonus)

Step 3: Fly 1000 hours as a Captain at Contour

Step 4: DEC into Skywest with 2 years of seniority ($20K Bonus)

Step 5: Fly 1600 hours PIC to United.

Penalties for leaving

$40K for leaving contour before Captain Upgrade $60K for leaving after Contour upgrade but before Skywest $75K for leaving Skywest


pay is apparently about $40k/year, and you’re flying min rest with ~6 legs/day.

Training Contract
 

Before it was a one year prorated training contract... Now they have a very complicated "program" which resembles inditured servitude that would realistically bind the pilot for 7 years best my calculations... Qualification on my opinion is I have not read the documents and I am basing my opinion on brief overview by management... New comers please READ the joining contract prior to signing... Best of luck...

Cheers

That is so funny. I lol'd for real.

Just wondering what times people actually get called in to interview with. Approaching 900 tt but nothing. With the dropping of minimums I figured they must be getting desperate but…

Personally, I think that your low time carriers are making a comeback. I can remember a few years back ( ie 2005+), I remember companies such as Gulfstream, ExpressJet, Chautauqua, Colgan, ASA...just to name a few that were hiring FO's with as little as 500 TT; 100 ME ; 50 hrs XC solo; and CPL with abliity to pass ATP written. The 1500 rule slowed hiring just a bit however, more & more people are are meeting and exceeding the minimums for your more established Regionals and with Majors ptting the brakes on hiring,,,you get this log jam. At any rate, I think that it'll all shake out in the end. jmo though.


atp

There is no "1500 hour rule." There is only a requirement that pilots flying under Part 121 hold an ATP.

Airline pilots must hold an airline transport pilot certificate. Go figure.

TTL time
 

The last two First Officers I did OE on in the CRJ had 860 +/- TTL time.

Kampai.

Were they hired on the airline or the charter side?