LAX is not open for choosing at the interview. If you want LAX try to get the SAAB in DFW and then put in a Transfer. You just might have it by the time training is over. Arbitration for the flowthroughs, I beleive, comes due in April or May. The result of that descision will tell us a lot about the future upgrade situation. As it stands now, we arent expecting huge things from the arbitrator, but the possible sale could stir things up pretty good.

If you have not yet, look at the other threads under the regional section regarding AE. They have some fairly current, accurate info. As for your questions, I will try to answer some of them as directly and unbiased as possible.
Peter Bowler (sp?) "said" (for what its worth) that the selling, if at all, should be announced by Nov.
I don't know of any new planes coming online but I do know from one of our instructors and many flying the line on the Saab that some of them might be taken out of service. It had something to do with mx servicing them with the wrong hydraulic fluid and it costing too much to replace the entire hyd system. So that's up in the air!...
Last year HR planned on 700 new hires and only got around 350. This year the goal is the same. We'll see if they try to compensate for last year or just fall short again.
If you are one of the ones looking for LAX, get in line. sorry but it is a very senior base and the only hope of you getting it is by chance being the most senior guy AND they happen to offer it when the time comes. Those spots fill up faster than they can hand them out.. literally.

Is MIA back on the table as a choice?

I had a conversation wih an ex-Eagle guy. He flew the ERJ right seat, he's at NetJets Int'l. He hired on in 2007, he says he had no int'l experience, no G-IV/V type, and no internal recomendations. He applied, they called, and he got on.

Good for him, I'm just wondering how that hell he managed to do that, rumor going around NJI has 14000 resumes on file.

maybe he's got Mojo

Some Numbers for those interested from the Feb 18 2008 sen list and Feb bid awards:

Current Jr CA is for San Juan ATR - DOH 9/00
138 Flowbacks left on seniority list awaiting recall to AA
172 FOs between Jr CA and 1/1/04 DOH
201 FOs with 2004 DOHs
98 FOs with 2005 DOHs
208 FOs with 2006 DOH
429 FOs with 2007 DOH
91 FOs with 2008 DOH

Assuming all flowbacks are recalled by next Feb, the junior CA mark should be within 50 numbers of a 2004 DOH (5 years seniority). To keep upgrades at 5yrs AE would have to upgrade 201 FOs in 2009, 98 in 2010, 208 in 2011, etc.

That's a lot of new aircraft orders. Oh wait, Eagle has none...

I live in Miami. My Instruments instructor applied for Eagle on December. He was offered the job but he needs to be at 120hrs multi time before starting. He asked for MIA and it was given to him. Our Chief Instructor is a Captain for Eagle (he has been for the last 11 years). He had 5 years without logging time as PIC on the ATR (In MIA as well). Every time i ask him how is Eagle? he replies: "..Best place in the world to work for, hope to stay here for the next 17 years.." (he is 48).

However he just bought a logbook... and he just started to log PIC time again :D

If MIA is not being offered (I don't know honestly) you can always take SJU and commute until you can transfer. For what its worth a couple of months ago my friends on the rock were getting dead-headed to cover flights out of MIA so there was a shortage then but I can't speak for this very moment. All you have to do is ask recruiting if MIA is open, they know better than any of us since they send you there.

Yes, if you are SJU based on reserve you may be assigned MIA trips. I know I was several times back in the day.

And if you really want to, if you are SJU based and live in MIA, you can bid for MIA trips as OT all you want. MIA and SJU are actually on the same, separate Executive certificate (not the Eagle certificate), so there is no problem.



That's just plain sad...

is there a training contract with eagle???