In2theBlue

Im an ex Eagle guy. Was at Eagle for like 3.5 years and was on RSV the entire time, it was miserable. I left for a decent corporate gig, homebased, and Captain. It just isn't really for me though and I want to be back at an airline. I want my career to end at American so I started to look around at all the flows. Im fully aware of all the kool aid that goes around within the regional industry and I would like to think I'm smart enough not to drink it but I gotta ask....A recruiter told me that new hire to AA is about 4.5 years, they are calling it 5 to be safe. Is this true?? Also, you can bid Captain right of out of training? I couldn't care less about the 15k sign on, to be honest, I hated that they started doing that when I was at Eaglevoy. Im more concerned about the growth and flow capability at PDT. I would be taking a huge paycut and massive QOL cut, but I want to be at AA and if the flow is at 5 years, that would put me at 33 years old with a promising career. Just wanted some current PDT guys 2 cents..thanks guys

payingdues

pm me if you want. but yes you can bid dash capt asap. qol around here is tough but improving as more people come. as for flow... id put new hire at 6. but that number can change rapidly if flow spot 5-6 are attained by getting more people.

MKUltra

Feel free to pm me... We're flowing seniority number 100s right now.. New hires are seniority number 450+... We are flowing 3 a month right now, If they can get 475 we flow 4 a month.. And at 600 we flow 5 per month.. The attrition rate is really up there.. I moved up almost 70 spots in a year and now have 150 behind me. Not a bad place for a person with a little bit more than a year on property.

We have quite a few retirements in the next 2 years as well.. Probably a group of 30 senior guys will be out in 2 more years.. Some are out on medical and not going to come back.. We still have a very senior group of pilots at pdt.

PDT is planning 200 new hires by year end... I don't know if that possible.... But seniority is everything and if you want to get to american through the flow.. Every month you wait delays getting there exponentially.

aviator493

We hit 475 with 6/20 class. I think my brother is actually the 475 ha


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MKUltra

We're 452 pilots on the seniority list.. Still need 23 more

aviator493

Why am I seeing 479? I'm new, so maybe I'm looking at wrong list! Ha


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AZFlyer

479 is the seniority number. 452 is the sequence number; ie the number of people on the generated list. If you select just CA or just FO, the sequence number will change, and show you the number of people on that list, but the seniority numbers will stay the same.

aviator493

Ah, ok. Thanks. I'm slowly learning the emp site. Ha


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MKUltra

Seniority numbers are updated at certain times as per the contact.. my seniority number is plus 20 from what I actually am. I am wondering when new hires are going to go direct into the 145. I seed it as a waste for new hire to qual on the dash and go to the jet right away.

3inthegreen

What is upgrade time for someone with 1,000 TPIC?