Couple Eagle questions
 

Hi guys, looking for some updated info about AE, haven't seen much about them lately.

Just wondering how things are over there these days, are a lot of people leaving or does it seem like decent place to be? It seems one of the 'worst' things is the upgrade time which even that appears to be coming down a bit now that things are moving. The choosing base before training is what's appealing to me, so just wanted to find out a little bit about how things are there.

Also, do you fly more than just from your base? For example if you're based in BOS, do you fly just out of there or fly all over wherever the equipment you fly goes? Hope that makes sense.

Thanks in advance!

my buddy flies the atr out of san juan and he is happy there. upgrade at its shortest is going to be 3-4 yrs down the road and its currently in the ballpark of 7. they are desperate for pilots like almost every regional right now. you would make more at another regional with a shorter upgrade to captain. you also do have the potential for American to spread the regional feed to other carriers in the future kind of what continental did or is doing to expressjet. Nothing definitive yet or in the next couple months. I think American was "reviewing their regional contracts" or some BS like that. seems to be a sweet deal with the predetermined bases.

Eagle is a great company, I live in BOS so the base gaurantee is very appealing. My good friend started with them a year ago. Hes in BOS, currently holding a line, and loving it. Pay is good too. Upgrade is still7-8 years but maybe will drop to 4-5. I had a prescreening interview with them and they told me to get 700TT. I have 450 and 100ME right now. They wont budge on their minimums like most of the regionals, however, they are trying to hire 700 pilots this year like everyone else, so I wouldnt be surprised if that comes down to 500-600TT. The interview and medical isnt as in depth as it used to be either. When I met with Eagle, they were extremely nice and a 1st class operation.

I came to Eagle in November after 18 months at PSA and have no regrets. The only downside is the corprate culture which values things more than people. Based in BOS you'll do mostly east coast flying, we run the RDU hub on BOS based crews, and you do trips out of LGA and JFK too. As a reserve pilot you could be sent anywhere in the system. My classmates have flow DFW & ORD trips & I flew out of LAX for a couple days. (Excellent flying, btw. Absolutely loved it.)

If you want to stay in BOS, Eagle is the place to go. Colgan & BigSky are not in the same league when it comes to QOL, and Colgan values thier people even less than Eagle does, from most accounts.

Sweet, thanks for the info all! Sounds like a pretty good deal.

I am in class now. I like the place. Everyone hear is great and the moral is quite good. The class I am in has about half captains and half FO. We are really low when it comes to pilots and they are cutting some of the flying out of LAX because of the lack of pilots. I recommend coming here.

What aircraft does Eagle fly out of LGA? Are there any training contracts? Do many new FO's want LGA as their base?

I am in my Sim's now. Checkride next Fri. RipEagle I know an FO that would love for you to come to LGA so he will be off ready reserve come July bid.:p Personally, I think you should come to BOS, help put me further from ready reserve:D So, no complaints here, pay in training is pretty good too. EMB is quite the aircraft, technology wise. So we'll see what its like on the line. BTW all EMB in LGA.

Eagle flies the EMB 140 and EMB 135 out of LGA. There is no training contract. From LGA, we do a lot of flying. Eagle is a good place to work and the upgrade time "may" come back down from outerspace.

McDonald's is a Good company. My good friend is a Swing Manager there. When he works Drive-Thru he gets to wear a headset like the ones airline pilots do. I have no work experience except for a paperoute when I was in gradeschool and highschool.

Couldn't resist. Sorry mregan

How is Eagle with commuting? When on reserve do you have to sit at the airport??? I live in Virginia near Charlottesville where Eagle doesn't fly but have Dulles/Richmond all within 2 hour drive. How is MIA as a base? Where do those routes fly? Seems like a fun place to fly out of. If I decided to jump to the regionals, Eagle would be my first choice based on what I hear. Colgan is in my backyard, but not a big fan of the company. MIA just jumps out at me as a great base and a place I would like to fly from. Any info would be great! Thanks

Eagle has ATRs out of MIA, no ERJs, but from a couple buddies I know based here, it is a good place and they like it. Ellen I also had a paper route when I was a kid, it was a good money maker :)

Where do the ERJs in Miami come from??? BOS...LGA??? Seems like there are a lot of flights out of there...

When I was at eagle we flew ERJs based out of ORD down to MIA...Then back and forth from CLT-MIA or RDU-MIA even PIT-MIA, basically they come from all over I suppose...But MIA is only an ATR base with ERJ service.

Also when I was there couple yrs ago bases were (these may have changed) -
ORD ERJs and CRJs
DFW ERJs SAABs CRJs?
LAX SAAB
BOS ERJ
LGA ERJ
SJU ATR
MIA ATR

Those bases are still the same. Commuting is no harder or easier than any other airline. We do have a nice commuter clause if you cant get in but you dont want to have to use it. The flying in the ATR bases is all out and backs and i think its the same with the saab in lax and dfw. We do have airport reserve usually 3 shifts for 8 hours a day. In SJU they are so short on FO's that they cant even get airport stand by and give our open trips to MIA guys. Im not sure how happy people are with the place. Most of the ne wer FO's like it, although two of the guys in my ATR class have already left. The younger captains have all been screwed by flowbacks and are really bitter about the company and are always b!%ch!ng but are really fun to fly with. Its a descent company and aside from the same crap you get at any airline I would say go for it.