ASA NOW TOP 3 REGIONAL to work for
 

in light of ASA's new TA combined with their "500 pound gorilla" pressence in the worlds buizziest airport. ASA is now one of the best regionals to work for. ASA feeds new pilots to delta , airtran , southwest all the time. upgrade time of 2-3 years. you will be making $65k + in 3 years then you are marketable to all other majors or stay at asa to top out at $120K and have awsome QOL ( 3 on 4 off ) .

now lets hear all the negitive black cloud that this forum is the best of all other forums i have ever come across on the entire www.

Delta and SWA are fine and dandy.. but AirTran.. c'mon now, who you kiddin'

I will also add that there is very little reserve time as well,. esp. on the CRJ 200

:D Man I sure did get in at the right time. Now its just to focus on training.

I wouldn't call a whopping 4 whole days off in a row awesome QOL. At my place, a schedule like that would suk.

Yeah, congrats on your new contract, but your payrates are still way tooooooo low for the bigger planes

who is saying they are in the top 3? or this that just your own opinion?

Kilo Alpha....whats the problem with Airtran...or did i just open a whole can of worms?

There is nothing wrong with AirTran.
3 on 4 off is not bad unless you are a moron, in that case you would never be happy....

Not one to normally say it but this sounds like talk you'd hear around the Koolaid bowl.

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"now lets hear all the negitive black cloud that this forum is the best of all other forums i have ever come across on the entire www."

13 posts and you got us figured out?

If you think this is a bad place, feel free to go somewhere else.

This is your opinion and I'm glad you’re excited but keep in mind that a good TA doesn't make a good airline, a good airline makes a good TA (i.e. SWA & UPS). Do you think you would have gotten a TA like this one if ASA had been purchased by MAG? Don’t be naive; No, you would not have. You guys will see that JA and CC are good men; you guys belong to a good company.

Much like the thought process when it comes to our passengers; “where we go.............they go.”

Where they (SKW Inc) go................we (SKW & ASA) go!

de727ups is that sarcasm in your signature or is that you?

Don Eikenberry = de
In the article he says he sat sideways in a 72 = 727
He works at UPS = ups

2 + 2 = ? :D:D

Good work man.

I'm not much for useless sarcasim, though, I surprise people once in a while.

My sig line is copied from jetcareers, where I have written a profile.

I have sat sideways and in the right seat of the 727. I'm currently a 7576 Capt at UPS. Too lazy to change my screen name.

I've had several friends (and one roommate) go off to ASA with mixed results. The dissenting opinion comes from a kid who got tossed on to the -700 against his will. In all honesty, he's not in a bad spot, he's just not a fan of sitting reserve forever and a day getting bumped down by -200 drivers bidding over. If I knew then what I know now, I would have gone there instead. But too late now. The "other" roommate has been there awhile and works a schedule that would be a pipe dream to someone with the same seniority number at RAH. The biggest problem everyone had with ASA was the lack of a contract...once they have one I would recommend it to anyone, especially if you want to go to Delta. ASA is to DAL what XJT is to CAL.

The only real issue I have with ASA is that their owned by SKW Inc. That's not a flame against you SKW pilots...it's a fact of life that your parent company owns two airlines operating on two contracts with two seniority lists...eventually those two are gonna clash (if you don't count ASA losing both it's bases on the left side of the rockies...in which case they already have).

You don't have a purple veil and some black Nikes, do you jetguy?

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wow. i have to take back the black cloud comment now. most of the replies are logical. no kool-aid for me (used to be delta for 9+ years and got my fill). just calln em like i see em. anouther big plus is the scheduling dept will actully work w/ you(ask what days off you want, if called for reserves you can ask if there are any more junior pilots that can pick up and they do it). btw reserves is almost non existant for new hires, some do not even do a month.

Jesus, people...LEARN TO SPELL CORRECTLY!

Whi, soem peeple speel inkorreclttly heer?

I'm a "Jesus people". :)

Dude... are you serious? only HORIZON pays better then us in the 70 seat cpt/fo


look it up on this site, or if your dont want to do that much work I will show you here: (years 1,2,3)
ASA: 19,37,39 (fo) 60,62,64 (cpt)

Horizon: 29,42,43 (fo) 71,73,75 (cpt)
Comair: 22,36,37 (fo) 59,60,62 (cpt)
Skywest: 19,37,38 (fo) 60,61,63 (cpt)
Republic holding (E170): 23,30,35 (fo) 57, 61, 65 (cpt)

so how much is TOOOO LOOOOW? Horizon pay tooo loooow too?

~m

Me too!!!!:cool:



atp

3 on 4 off is great, especially if you can keep that as a routine....having 6 days off in a row is nice, but typically, you end up with a couple stints of 2 days off in between, which would really be a downer on me.

I like ASA. They're one of the good guys. Lets be happy they got the contract they did. With rigs it's not a bad deal.

Well considering that those rates are the NEW ASA rates on most of those you compare them to are contracts 2-4 years old.... yea I hope they are better...

Good for ASA.....

We also don't seem to have listed other items. Has guarantee changed? What were the exact rigs I can't remember? What are the yearly increases as well as per diem?

Those are not the NEW asa rates those are the old ASA rates as found on APC. So as you can see even with the OLD contract our 70 seat pilots were the best paid in the industry. With the new TA it will be even better.


~m