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Old 05-20-2017, 04:06 AM
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Originally Posted by HobGoblin View Post
True, but his argument was the schedules are terribly inefficient. They aren't great but they are getting better and it's still possible to fly your ass off if you want to. Like I did. 900 hours.

But yes, at any airline, your first year will have months of training, in which you won't be flying much. I doubt reserve will be that long for new hires
Congratulations on being an outlier. My argument is many FOs will be passed over upgrades due to lack of time. Keep flying your ass off. I'll keep flying 300 hours a year and crediting 110 hours.
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Old 05-20-2017, 07:20 AM
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Congratulations on being an outlier. My argument is many FOs will be passed over upgrades due to lack of time. Keep flying your ass off. I'll keep flying 300 hours a year and crediting 110 hours.
Hahaha. Okay so, terribly inefficient schedules, yet you fly 25 hours a month and get paid 110 hours for it. Sounds pretty good to me!

Our schedules will allow you to fly a lot if you want to.
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Old 05-20-2017, 04:13 PM
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Hahaha. Okay so, terribly inefficient schedules, yet you fly 25 hours a month and get paid 110 hours for it. Sounds pretty good to me!

Our schedules will allow you to fly a lot if you want to.
We are both outliers. I have a fantastic QOL and good pay. Tomorrow I'm going to wake up on reserve and not even think twice about getting a phone call from CS. Why are we talking about us though? We are talking about new hires.

17 hr 4 day trip averages are inefficient trips. We use to have 18 hr three day trips. And 20+ hour four day trip averages.
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Old 05-21-2017, 09:05 AM
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We are both outliers. I have a fantastic QOL and good pay. Tomorrow I'm going to wake up on reserve and not even think twice about getting a phone call from CS. Why are we talking about us though? We are talking about new hires.

17 hr 4 day trip averages are inefficient trips. We use to have 18 hr three day trips. And 20+ hour four day trip averages.
According to the union the average credit is about 80 hours per line.
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Old 05-22-2017, 05:06 AM
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According to the union the average credit is about 80 hours per line.
OK OK OK. So an average line flies 80/month and 960 per year just doing average flying yet you worked your ass off and only flew 900 hours...

Lol. I don't even think we are talking about the same thing. I'm talking about a NH trying to get to 1000/2500 hours. With 103 lines the company has 70 reserve pilots. Next month it gets better with 105 lines and 40-50 reserve pilots. (I can't remember the exact number.) We usually have 50-60 reserve pilots to cover 100 lines.

Simply put -- A NH not wanting to be based in LGA on the 145 will have longer reserve times and inefficient junior lines which could cause him/ her to not get 1000 hrs before he/she could hold a CA slot.
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OK OK OK. So an average line flies 80/month and 960 per year just doing average flying yet you worked your ass off and only flew 900 hours...

Lol. I don't even think we are talking about the same thing. I'm talking about a NH trying to get to 1000/2500 hours. With 103 lines the company has 70 reserve pilots. Next month it gets better with 105 lines and 40-50 reserve pilots. (I can't remember the exact number.) We usually have 50-60 reserve pilots to cover 100 lines.

Simply put -- A NH not wanting to be based in LGA on the 145 will have longer reserve times and inefficient junior lines which could cause him/ her to not get 1000 hrs before he/she could hold a CA slot.
Another factor at least for the short term is that the FO/CA balance all out of whack. A lot of new hire FOs aren't getting called very often on reserve because there just aren't any CAs to fly with. Hopefully they will catch up on upgrades sometime soon.
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