Republic or ASA
 

Ok after learning my lesson and jumping on the first airline that gave me an offer, (Comair) I am being a little more picky this time around. I have had a bunch of interviews and offers and narrowed it down to Republic and ASA. Republic has good equipment but a lot of turmoil right now from what I hear and ASA has CRJ-200's and a long upgrade time but seem to be hlding their own. Who would you pick and why.

Also Republic seems to have a lot of pilots saying to stay away but I never hear any legitimate reasons as to why. Can someone say a little about the QOL of Republic?

Try 9E lots of movement going on.

I had the option to pick between Republic and Eagle and I choose Republic. Scheduled for the april 4th class. if it's right or worng I guess time will tell....

what's 9E means?

1985aviation,

What certificate did they hire you? Welcome aboard.

9E is Pinnacle.

As for coming to Republic, don't listen to the Debbie Downers out there. Just read a UPS thread and you will see that every pilot group has it's "the sky is falling" group.

9E is Pinnacle I believe, I have thought about them too. After working at Comair I am very leery about working for anyone that has CRJ50's due to Delta beating it into our heads that they wanted to do away with the 50 seats. That is also another reason I am leaning to Republic.

Don't go to RAH just to fly "good" equipment, aka "EMB170". The CRJ is not good equipment? Who care's what you fly, as long as you get compensated adequately and have a decent QOL. I can only speak for ASA. There are a few Comair guys that are making the jump over to ASA. Training will be easy and the instructors and crews will treat you right. Ultimately it'll be your decision and your preferences.

They hired me to CHQ certificate. I had the option to postpone the class in a month to go to Shuttle America but did not wanna take the chance...

Job security at RAH is contingent upon our branded flying faring well. Do some hard thinking and decide if you think it will. Good luck with your decision.

They are both jets with glass in my book. What I meant was during the last couple years at Comair all we ever heard was Delta doesn't want the 50 seats anymore they cost too much blah blah blah. And all the flying went away. From having 600 guys under me to almost getting furloughed makes me think hard about what airplane will be around in the next ten years and who is going to be flying them.

Hey 1985,

I was just curious, did they specifically tell you that there would be a Shuttle class in a month? I'm assuming late April early May? I have had to bypass two classes since my interview at Republic due to a lease and am hoping to have things ironed out pretty soon and am interested in Shuttle due to the LGA junior base.

Not specifically but they told me they had to move 4 people from Shuttle's April class to the next one because they decided to shrunk the class. they also told me that they plan to have classes every month so I did my own math. not specifically told Shuttle class on April. heard LGA is a junior base for CHQ as well though.

LGA is a pretty senior CHQ base... GRR is probably the most junior CHQ base. :) Where you get based all matters on where they happen to need people right then. 2 may goto CMH, 2 to LGA, and 4 the GRR. Who knows... But usually they don't just send everyone to the same base.

Quite a few of us ex-comair folks at Compass recently. DTW is the junior base right now. No 50 seaters, but owned by TSA.

I sent them a resume but I am minus the 4 year degree requirement hence no phone call. I guess if I had a 4 year degree in basket weaving or surfing I would be a better pilot.:D

LGA is super junior for S5 and the lines/trips are getting much better. They just added JAX, TPA and RSW overnights and from what I understand, maybe a Caribbean dest or 2 soon. and the line credit ratio is better than any other base. There's guys junior to me getting 16-18 days off with 90 credit

Nice. That's good news as I'll probably end up commuting out of Florida for a little bit. I hope they offer me a spot in the next S5 class.

Well, sounds to me you already made up your mind then. I hear you on the Comair situation. Been there, done that. Good Luck!

I was in the same boat and chose ASA. Of course I live in ATL so my decision was easy. I haven't regretted it once.

Where do you live and where do you want to be based?

That would be my deciding factor in picking a certificate. Junior folks at CHQ can expect MKE/GRR/ORD. Shuttle can expect LGA.

I currently live in FL and won't mind to relocate to the base. still young with no family so I feel free lol...with respect to where I want to be based, out of the three you listed I prefer ORD.

More importantly, with RAH where there is a base now, there might not be later. DEN and MKE are pretty safe bets. CMH safe, IND (outside of CHQ) safe. Everything else could one day disappear.