reserve at eagle is actually BETTER than any other regional. eagle is the ONLY regional i am aware of that allows reserve pilots to bid for a daily flying award. at any other it is assigned to you and you must put up with those who love to kiss the buttocks of the schedulers. at mesa you get 8 days off. the major gripe here is the "reassignment" feature that was added to the last amendment round, which simply brought eagle to the REALITY of reserve EVERYWHERE else.

we are very understaffed in every domicile. the upgrades are very long, but you know what upgrades are getting longer EVERYWHERE (skywest cannot maintain this pace, mesa is taking no new a/c, etc). if, a big if, recalls happen at AA (in addition to the flowthrough actually going) then eagle will see some movement. we have had an aggressive turn schedule introduction which lately has produced some movement (i think around 75 or so CA vacancies in the last 4 months).

there is always the rumor of 25 more CRJ's, which i'll believe when we see it.

as far as low time wonders, etc. let em complain. there are those that fy through training and ioe with 500 hours and those with 1500 hours, and the reciprical is also true. on the flip side, eagles CA's typically are very senior with a lot of time (our ceo reminds of this every chance we get). you have the typical bs with flowbacks and fo's and the usual 2% who are simply a pain in the butt.

good luck, please come here. we need people badly, esp at ORD.

Thats good the captains are experienced, hopefully they can handle a ERJ single-pilot. Weight restrictions, huh? How is your ERJ fleet split up? Is it mostly ERs? LRs? How are the 140s as far as weight restriction? Im at XJT and we only have a few ERs...man what a pain. The LR and XR have more capability in their left nose gear tire than the ER has:D

uh your company has been known to hire some "wonders" themselves and even had PFT in the not so distance past. the CA's there did fine flying "single-pilot".

besides it keeps the flowbacks on their toes.