Seems like a good company so far, besides getting jerked around on reserve...Im sure reserve sucks EVERYWHERE ya know? Training was great! Good people

 

Are the reserve guys flying their guarantee or over? I heard some stories of guys sitting around for a month and not getting called to fly but it could just be a rumor.

 

I am in training at Comair right now and put in a bid to return to CVG. My transfer date is 12/1/07... so I'll probably not even have to go to JFK. Seems like everyone who wants CVG out of training is getting it. Training at Comair is top notch so far too.

 

What is the current reserve time looking like for the CVG base? Does anybody project the upgrades to start dropping?

 

You can't hold a long call? I can and Oct. is my 3rd month out. I must have just barely got it. Plus people hired in Feb. got lines for October as well. So it may not be too long. True I saw about 10 or 15 MCO guys are coming in Nov. I didn't look how many got CVG below us. I'm hoping enough stay. I'm hoping for a line in December. When was your DOH, Paok?

 

Reserve sucks - even at SkyWest - you've got that right!

 

Okay so the rumor is true about not flying on reserve, but these are slow months... I flew like 8 hours in august, and am up to like 13 now for Sept.... I did have two 20 days gaps between flying, and barely have 60 hours in the plane....things should pick up in October I noticed a lot of people with like full four day trips on their lines (not me of course...stupid late window) Saxman you are lucky...im like 1575 or something in senority...somewhere around there.... November look like 12-15 FO's from MCO above me and about 20 BELOW me leaving...so that is just blah....haha..... Oh well hopefully things will pick up when I Call planning and complain that with my window next month there is no way I will make it to 100 hours in 120 days.... clock is tickin'.......I really have no idea what to expect with all the transfers.....we will see!!!

 

I was hired in 1/07 and I'm transferring back to CVG in November. As of this month the lines are only about 5 away from my seniority... so I would assume for Nov. I'll either be a junior line holder due to A LOT of 50 seat guys transferring to the 70 or at the top end of the reserve list. So its looking from hire date to line for me was 11ish months...

 

I was hired at Comair in December 2006. A buddy of mine was hired at ASA a few months after that and from talking to him it seems like the attrition at ASA is a little more aggressive than Comair for the time being. Both of us have about 400 seniority numbers until the most junior upgrade. Right now I have 250 pilots junior to me and if the hiring continues as projected there should be another 250 by next summer.

 

Thanks for your input guys. My desire is to fly for either Comair or ASA. Anyone out there commuting to ATL, CVG, or JFK from SE Florida? How is it? Currently, I'm living in West Palm Beach.


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