Air Wisconsin
 

I am a CFI applicant at Northwestern Michigan College and one of our instructors was hired by Air Wis the other day with 850 total and 43 multi :rolleyes: . Mind you she was a female with a 4 year degree but still its pretty low. Just thought id post this info.

I'm not surprised by that. Midwest Connect (Skyway Airlines) are hiring people with 750TT and 50 Multi. Even Great Lakes Airlines in Denver are hiring with 700TT and 50 Multi. Express Jet won't even consider high timers like me.

Do you know if she had her resume walked in? AWAC doesn't care about women, the company isn't like that at all. In fact, normally the HR person doing the interview is a women. Getting a resume walked in seals the deal as far as interviewing there.

I think they are hurting really bad for pilots right now. I think it will only increase in the coming months.

~fosters

None of these regionals want higher time people. Higher time people ask too many tuff questions- pay, upgrade, union, etc. if you have 800-1000TT with over 50hrs ME and you fit the bill on your interview- you too can join the ranks of the underpaid at flight level 350. lower time pilots dream of plugging numbers into the CRJ's FMS is clouding judgements on how far under the pay scale they will be. As far as regionals go, I have heard that Air Wiskey is one of the more desirable places to work. Keep pluggin guys.

Great Lakes will hire people with even less than 700TT. I know a guy who had about 450TT when he got hired.

I disagree, I know several people that have jumped to other regionals after being furloughed. Many of them had more experience than the captains they were paired with for training. Certainly they had enough experience to ask the tough questions...

I agree, to an extent. The reason mins have come down as low as they are is because no one with any experience is applying - they are going other places or simply getting out of the industry.

However, there are exceptions to the rule - there was a 3000 hr 121 captain in my new hire class with 1000 turbine PIC. He was leaving his current employer because he wouldn't have to commute.

~fosters

In my 6+ years as an "regional" airline F/O...I have flown with high time Captains that should not have been Captains, some should not be allowed to fly airplanes, period. On the other side I have heard Captains tell stories about how they just flew with a new hire low timer and they were very impressed. Numbers are just numbers, look at the indivudual if you want the real story. One persons 1000 hours is not the same as the next persons 1000 hours.

FO

"In my 6+ years as an "regional" airline F/O..."

WOW, you are 4everfo. ;)

why so long on the upgrade? schedual, bidding?

with some insiders at expressjet and eagle, there have been extreme cases where 450TT and 75 ME will get you in the door... as a matter of fact, i was told by a lineholder at eagle that once i had those numbers, he would personally hand my resume into his chief pilot and get things rolling... sounds like i would be missing out on some valuable life and flying experience by taking him up on the offer, but then again, 450 hrs. doesnt get you to a major either