Colgan Interview
06-02-2010 | 10:57 AM
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06-02-2010 | 11:15 AM
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$1150 a MONTH take home?!?!?!?
The really sad thing is that there are people on these forums that defend (or at least used to) the company. If you are dumb enough or desperate enough to work here how can a union help you??? The company can smell your desperation for a job a mile away. I am guessing contract negotiations are going to go real well with the endless supply of people willing to make 1150 a month. Some of your pilot group doesn't even realize how poorly they are treated and paid in comparison to other regionals FLYING SMALLER EQUIPMENT!
15 more Q's coming this summer... awesome!!!! thats another 75 fo's below the poverty level... you all should be soo excited!
All in the name of a quick upgrade so you can make as much as first officers at other regionals... brilliant.
The really sad thing is that there are people on these forums that defend (or at least used to) the company. If you are dumb enough or desperate enough to work here how can a union help you??? The company can smell your desperation for a job a mile away. I am guessing contract negotiations are going to go real well with the endless supply of people willing to make 1150 a month. Some of your pilot group doesn't even realize how poorly they are treated and paid in comparison to other regionals FLYING SMALLER EQUIPMENT!
15 more Q's coming this summer... awesome!!!! thats another 75 fo's below the poverty level... you all should be soo excited!
All in the name of a quick upgrade so you can make as much as first officers at other regionals... brilliant.
I think we should give these guys the benefit of the doubt until the new ALPA contract is finished. Several large regionals started much the same as Colgan is now. Putting 2 pilots in one hotel room on overnights, making you pay for training, making poverty level wages... etc
Now many of those companies have industry leady contracts. Give these guys time to get it right and make it right.
06-02-2010 | 03:19 PM
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I think we should give these guys the benefit of the doubt until the new ALPA contract is finished. Several large regionals started much the same as Colgan is now. Putting 2 pilots in one hotel room on overnights, making you pay for training, making poverty level wages... etc
Now many of those companies have industry leady contracts. Give these guys time to get it right and make it right.
Now many of those companies have industry leady contracts. Give these guys time to get it right and make it right.
06-02-2010 | 03:32 PM
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06-02-2010 | 06:24 PM
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take home of 2100 first yr at xjt. Work rules are a HUGE part of income. That is something many of the colgan guys seem to forget.
06-02-2010 | 07:12 PM
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06-02-2010 | 07:40 PM
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LMFAO!!!!!
I don't feel the least bit sorry for not a single one of you suckers.
The pay wouldn't be that bad if no one took the job. Chuck Colgans resume inbox should be empty no excuses. At 1000 bucks a month the "i have a family" crap just dosen't fly. The worse part about it is you guys are sealing your fate to low wages and crappy QOL for the next 20-30years. Enjoy the PB and J/bags of tunna and the top ramen.
I don't feel the least bit sorry for not a single one of you suckers.
The pay wouldn't be that bad if no one took the job. Chuck Colgans resume inbox should be empty no excuses. At 1000 bucks a month the "i have a family" crap just dosen't fly. The worse part about it is you guys are sealing your fate to low wages and crappy QOL for the next 20-30years. Enjoy the PB and J/bags of tunna and the top ramen.
You want ALL 74 pax aircraft mainline. Good.
But beyond, that your are making the same mistake* earlier mainliners have made: you are not fighting to have EVERY aircraft with ANY seats flown by a mainline pilot.
*Maybe it wasn't a mistake. Maybe they were just too proud to fly little puddle jumpers.
06-02-2010 | 07:55 PM
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I think we should give these guys the benefit of the doubt until the new ALPA contract is finished. Several large regionals started much the same as Colgan is now. Putting 2 pilots in one hotel room on overnights, making you pay for training, making poverty level wages... etc
Now many of those companies have industry leady contracts. Give these guys time to get it right and make it right.
Now many of those companies have industry leady contracts. Give these guys time to get it right and make it right.
Then again, there were many that didn't... Never "paid for training", never "endured 2 pilots in one room on overnights", and made more flying a 19 seat turboprop many years ago than Colgan pays now for an almost jet speed 74 seat aircraft.
06-02-2010 | 10:15 PM
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I've got an interview coming up, trying to get a feel for what the first year schedule is like. 2, 3, 4 day trips?
Days off a month? I know few but how many back to back?
If any current FO's are lurking out there please PM me. I've got some questions.
Days off a month? I know few but how many back to back?
If any current FO's are lurking out there please PM me. I've got some questions.
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