From current or prior American Eagle pilots, what can I anticipate for the length of Reserve status if I take a job offer. I want DFW, so if you have info on the length of Reserve in DFW that would be helpful. I'm thinking that since their short on pilots and cant hire as many as they want, maybe sitting Reserve status is non-existent or short?? I appreciate your info.

 

I am not 100% about DFW, but I'll guess 1 year.

At LGA it is under 8 months

 

On the Embraer in DFW the most senior reserve guy is a 10/06 hire. It would be much shorter for the Saab.

 

What about for ORD. I heard in the forums here that its 2 months on the EMB in ORD. One visitor said they're so short that they're flying BOS EMB pilots to ORD to fly the routes. Is this accurate? You guys anticipate a lot of movement in seniority with the airline being sold?

 

Currently no ORD or BOS EMB RESERVE WAIT. Yes BOS is flying coverage. Currently at American 700+ pilots have submitted paperwork to retire. May be a good thing for us.

 

DFW 6 months to a year on the EMB. 3-6 months on the SAAB. dont even ask about the CRJ in any domicile. long time.

ORD 1-2 months, if that, on the EMB.

LGA 2-6 months on EMB

BOS 2-6 months on EMB

Thats what the training department is telling us right now. we have 27 in the class, 13 are headed to ORD on the EMB. The last class had 38 and 20 were headed to ORD on he EMB. Even with that, they say we are still 60 FO's short in ORD. go to Chicago if you dont want reserve. DFW is Very Senior. we had two spots for the CRJ in our class and that was in DFW and went to the oldest guys. They had four sport for the CRJ in the last class I beleive two at ORD and and two at DFW.

 

Thanks guys. Right now I am flying 7p to 7a 6 days a week, week in and week out, and anything else is better. My guess is movement will be happening at AE.

 

I am just coming up on one year at DFW on the EMB and still on reserve. Everyone from my class that went to ORD sat reserve for about 1 month, then got composite lines and then hard lines. I do enjoy working here, but as far as movement, I'll believe it when I see it.

 

What kind of flight time is the reserves guys getting at DFW?

 

CRJ reserve time is pretty much like upgrade time at Eagle. Don't try and do the math, just pray something happens and try not to think about it in the mean time. If you REALLY want to get a line ASAP, pick BOS on your first day of training and put in a bid for ORD on your second day. You get an EMJ slot in class (all we got in Boston) and you will be transfered to ORD possibly before IOE and you will get a line rather quickly thereafter.

AVOID the CRJ unless you live in your base and don't really like working. I flew 6 days and credited less than 12 hours for the month of January. I spent more time banging my head against the head in Chicago than anywhere else. If I were on the EMJ (if I had gone to BOS and xfered), I would have a commutable like with desirable flying.

The 700 may be a better airplane than the 145 in my opinion, but Eagle doesn't have enough 700s to know what to do with them or where to fly them.