How do you guys feel about commute air?
 

Hows flying the dash 8's? is this a decent company, i start class next month...

Ummm... I think thoes are questions you should ask before taking a job...

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I also think knowing how to spell the name of your employer is important.

Extra-low pay, and from the two guys I know there (and not just 'oh, I know a guy'... one is an old roommate, the other I used to work with), you just about never break monthly guarantee.

I can remember a hundred years ago when Orville, Wilbur and I used to fly for Allegheny Commuter into and out of upstate NY airports, we would see quite a few Commutair BE-1900(D)s flying around as USAir Express also.

Of course there was some friendly and not-so-friendly rivalry between us and them. However, the two big beefs I had with Commutair back in the early 90's was hearing them make contact on Center frequency with a call like, "
Boston Center, Commutair 5607, 14,500 VFR direct Sandy Point". In the DASH, we would be at 15,000 feet solid IMC conditions and had been that way for the entire flight.

Secondly, I can remember probably three occasions taxiing out behind them and seeing the tail of their plane full of ice, or a quick turn in which they didn't de-ice and it was snowing to beat the band.

I recall that their pilots (Capts) were paid quite well as a part of profit sharing, but to me flying a plane in the soup under VFR rules or flying a 1900 with a load of ice on it isn't worth an extra 5 grand in profit sharing.

That's my two cents of Commutair from back in the early 90's...maybe it has changed. Hope so.

Good Luck,

FF

CommutAir is definitely near the bottom my, and just about everyone else's list, right down there with Mesa, GoJet, and Great Lakes. What exactly prompted you to apply to that place anyway? What are you looking for? Because, if you have the time to get hired, you would do much better elsewhere in both the short term and long term.