FO slots in MEM opening up

Just saw on their website they're hiring a DO, what happened to that last one? and why'd they quit flying their namesake route? Seattle-Portland?

I have a hunch. I suspect it's fairly difficult to compete with Horizon Air on that segment. And with good reason, Horizon is a great product and Northwesterners have a lot of love for our our native airlines.

its actually a new chief pilot, he got a land-based job... the DO is staying put for a while.

I have an interview with Seaport coming up. Can't seem to find anything on here or any of the gouge sites. Anyone have any suggestions?

It's single engine turbine. I'm sure it's not going to have wonderlic test, psych eval, pilot review board, technical written exam, or an ATP ride. Relax and know the basics.

When is your interview scheduled?

Next week....

what day do you interview I am going to be there Thursday afternoon

Because their crap business model doesn't work.

hr portion of interview
50 question instrument procedures quiz
sim profile: departure and instrument app "looking for basic instrument skills"

When did you have your interview?
Is there a choice on which aircraft or have to fly both?
What about the base: Memphis or Portland?

you will be flying both aircraft
primarily memphis (maybe a later option for portland)

BE YOURSELF in the interview!

I agree, be yourself at the interview.

Does anyone know if they are hiring or anything?

There is some truth to this.

It seems the current plan is to keep trying random city pairs to see if they can make money..... New service to YKM and EAT....

Maybe they should get into Airmed service....

I believe it's the C208 in EAT and YKM, right? Anyone know the mins?

Commercial. If they're hiring, you'll have a realistic shot with 500 hours.

I know this is a couple months old, but I'm sitting at right around 500 and they sound like a pretty decent company. Are they still hiring? (website says accepting resumes.) Do they want any night? IFR? X/C?

Last I heard they were running a class and not hiring again for at least a couple months. I don't work there though so I'm not 100% on that

They just hired 7 and put another 4 or so through indoc as poolies.... your nuts to work here...4 on with 1 day reserve as your last day, so kiss commuting good bye... and Memphis is gang city.

is this the same seaport airlines that operate caravans out of nashville?

Yes it is them

PFSH!!!!! MEM ain't got nothin' on DTW, lol. I'd take my chances, and the person in the left seat probably isn't trying to kill me.

Well ill say this to that, the guy in the left seat is. Averge time for upgrade is 8 months and most guys upgrade at 135 mins. No previous commercial time just watch out.

is this surf air or seaport are they the same management?

This is seAport, mot of the pc12's have been retired and thy are flying Cessna 208a caravans.....most of the management that is left is ex pacific wings and the company is going that way, most people have jumped ship that have any sort of time

Is this true? I checked FlightAware and it appears they are still flying a fair number of PC12s.

I heard they are growing - any idea what fleet is growing - the 208 or PC12?

How does a schedule typically work? Is it 4 days on & 3 off or a random mix? Are upgrades usually right at 1200TT? How are upgrades determined? Any information on this place would be great!

Pacific Wings, *then* Mokulele... President is a also a pilot and flies the line every now and then.

Never heard of Seaport. Why fly single engine T-prop unless you don't have a multi or enough time in a multi to go somewhere else?

Because dont have enough time to go somewhere else haha.

Maybe it offers a better quality of life than schleping a B1900 out of Farmington?

Anything beats Great Lakes, agreed. But if you have the time, why no SkWest, ExpressJet, Compass, Horizon ect?

Great Lakes beats my current job.

Short on seaport:
Good time builder for people who dont have a cfi or sub 1000 hours

Why i hated it:
No more pc12s
11 leg days
15min turns
No toilet on aircraft
No food breaks
No per diem
1 year training contract for 5k that renews at upgrade
Memphis hiring only
Mostly non commutable schedules. The senior people make lines for themselves.
Good maint personnel but very short staffed.
One cappy just got his cert revoked for flying a broke airplane mtx said was ok
Rob mckinney never tells it as it is (whats new in the airline world)
No hotels for overnights (apartments of which you need to brig your own pillows and blankets)
Fo pay sucks
No pay scale
No work rules
Junior assigned via text message
120 hour min rest months the norm in memphis
Caravan a models (i hated them)
No days off guaranteed (i averaged 4 a month off)
Flight training sucked, fly with a 20 year old cappy who is training you to collect a higher pay check and cant teach worth a darn and then fly a check ride with a management pilot. Bare min training.
No employee dedicated parking. If they get busy typlically over the holidays they run out of parking for customers and employees. We had to park at a pay to park lot once.
No id90
You drive yourself in the crew car to overnight
apartment
Throw you own bags


Good things:
Lots of time in the air
Good ground school
Cass (lacks ual and aal and swa)
Memphis base (dont get car jacked on your drive in) haha
Quick upgrade
They do have travel bennies for all your family
You get to fly in a big airport (for you shinny jet folks)
Its an airline??
Captain pay is ok

Questions below:

The 4 days off part is easy.... You need 24hrs consecutive rest. That would be one day off a week by 4 weeks, voila 4days off... Granted you don't exceed 120hrs in a month and 35hrs in 7days. ;)

btw the Alaska flying is MUCH different from this... but its also not commutable.. I don't know any pilot here (in Juneau) that commutes. Most guys go home for a week or two at a time, and the year-round guys typically take a month off (Dec - Mar period).

Ok first, yes the Alaska op was totally different! Captains on the pc12 bailed outta Mem to go to jun.... That said management fought that person greatly to keep him in Mem...they can't keep pilots in Mem longer then 6 months.

120 hours in a month, easy, fly to 119 hours with another pilot as a dead header, swap seats at 119 and deadhead home. It was done.

Also the 4 days off
First all overnights were 8 hours block to block. In base it was always less then 24 hour. the way they get around the 24 hours, they give it but let's say your trip lands at 7pm, you will block out at 7pm the next day. That or they give you fly to Sln friday night, sit all day sat in Sln, and fly the 6am out on Sunday....basic tv, no Internet, basic food...it's the pits.

The caravan
The 208a is the straight tail, basic instruments, no ice boots.
They have a 208b or two floating around the have boots, a ice plate and garmin 430. Still it's a caravan and this is the new airplane the coast is switching to for the entire operation.