That poor guy that slaves away making those pizza's all day... He is the least looking Italian guy there is... but he is a hard worker, he just looks so sad all the time.

 

The jets are still coming. Current bid is 7 captains and 8 FO's for it. Health insurance is nails. Total out of pocket per year is $600 at the office/hospital. Our monthly payments have been creeping up because of the contract though, but it's still not terrible. Expect to be in training limbo for a couple months (read "paid vacation with some studying"). Short reserve or none, short or no time to base of choice, and with 1000 121 at-will upgrade. Some frustration with the training department, schedules, and old beat-up aircraft.

 

Thanks for the info, do you know how much is the monthly payment? How soon to hold Harrisburg as a captain, truthfully my family and I can't afford the paycut. Thank you

 

Jr MDT captain is 2/22/16 hire. Which is likely fresh out of training. I pay 123.38 a paycheck for medical and 22.50 for dental and that's for the Cadillac family plan. It would be nice if I had received the $15k signing bonus haha, but I'm close to upgrade and I'll be on year 2 captain pay by football season.

 

I've been in the corporate side of the industry for the last five years, and I really enjoy it. However, I'm thinking about pursuing a viable path to the majors, and given the fact that I don't have enough TPIC time to go directly to the majors, I'm considering the regional airline route. I'm 42 years old though.

1) Am I getting a little too old to be starting this regional to majors track?

2) Is the "flow through" to American something that you can count on, and is roughly five or six years an accurate estimate for going from new hire Piedmont FO to Piedmont CA to new hire American FO?

3) Would I have an equally good shot at being hired by a major airline if I just continued to fly corporate over the next five years? (I'm assuming that by then I would meet their TPIC time minimums.)

Thanks a lot for any helpful replies. Much appreciated.

 

probably not, you still have 23 years left, assuming the 6 year flow below is correct that leaves you 17y at mainline, even 8 yrs would leave you a decade and a half at american

as of right now yes you can count on it, its in our contract, so unless that gets amended, or they take a risk of violating it and going to arbitration, it should keep going

depends, not sure how the majors look on single pilot/corporate tpic as opposed to 121 crew time, i would think the latter would be preferable but, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men

 

Thanks very much, dash8, for a really helpful reply.

 

No problem, glad I could be of service, check your pm's

 

What is the time frame for the retirement of the dash fleet? Or has that not been announced

 

Are they going to put the ADSB upgrade in them?