Piedmont
05-14-2007 | 12:27 PM
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Piedmont
Wondering 3 things about Piedmont:
1.Where do new hires usually get based--How difficult is LGA to get?
2. Is the $5000 sign-on bonus for real?--Everyone gets it??
3. Is there a training contract, and if so, how long/how much?
Hope someone knows these. Thanks!!
1.Where do new hires usually get based--How difficult is LGA to get?
2. Is the $5000 sign-on bonus for real?--Everyone gets it??
3. Is there a training contract, and if so, how long/how much?
Hope someone knows these. Thanks!!
05-14-2007 | 12:29 PM
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1.) You will get LGA no problem. People usually get put there against their will, so if you request it, you should get it.
2.) I don't know anything about the signing bonus.
3.) There is no contract.
2.) I don't know anything about the signing bonus.
3.) There is no contract.
05-14-2007 | 05:22 PM
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At the current state Piedmont is in. I hope the management decides on a training contract. I heard you guys are VERY short staffed on FO's right now. . . .like you have half of what you need. At the rate they hire people, it's seems to me like $5 Grand a pop would burn up some cash fast. They need to have the contract to have FO's stick around for more than 6 months which would reduce training costs and further increase the ability to finance new aircraft. But only if big brother would realize the Q400 is a regional airplane.
I worked there for 8 months and it wasn't a half bad place to be, despite being based in MDT with the grumpy ALG guys. . .kidding. They actually were great guys and made me more excited each day to apply somewhere else.
I worked there for 8 months and it wasn't a half bad place to be, despite being based in MDT with the grumpy ALG guys. . .kidding. They actually were great guys and made me more excited each day to apply somewhere else.
05-14-2007 | 05:41 PM
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I agree but if piedmont imposes a training contract, nobody would go (unless they lived in base). There needs to be a future there, they are scoped out of Q400s, half of their leases are up in 09' If they had any good news they would tell the pilot group and it might slow the rate FOs leave.
05-15-2007 | 02:51 AM
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At the current state Piedmont is in. I hope the management decides on a training contract. I heard you guys are VERY short staffed on FO's right now. . . .like you have half of what you need. At the rate they hire people, it's seems to me like $5 Grand a pop would burn up some cash fast. They need to have the contract to have FO's stick around for more than 6 months which would reduce training costs and further increase the ability to finance new aircraft. But only if big brother would realize the Q400 is a regional airplane.
I worked there for 8 months and it wasn't a half bad place to be, despite being based in MDT with the grumpy ALG guys. . .kidding. They actually were great guys and made me more excited each day to apply somewhere else.
I worked there for 8 months and it wasn't a half bad place to be, despite being based in MDT with the grumpy ALG guys. . .kidding. They actually were great guys and made me more excited each day to apply somewhere else.
05-15-2007 | 05:58 AM
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