Might be realistic for a min, but as far as realistic for the average getting hired "very much so." At 3000 TT I was the second lowest time guy in my class. Average was around 6000TT and as high as 11000TT.

Obviously this is due to the fact that there were and are many high time pilots still on the street. Soon though, things will be back to hiring with the bare mins. ASA I is hiring guys with less than 900 hours now.

I see Republic keeping their mins at 2000TT until the puddle dries up.

 

Not sure about the mins but I will warn you that the new hire wash out rate has been very high recently. Some classes around 50%

 

I understand new-hires to S5 are going to LGA lately and have a few questions regarding the base:

• Days off for junior line holder?
• How many months to hold a line?
• Any CLT overnights?
• 4 day trips going junior or senior?
• Crew meals / perks for DL flying?
• Ease of commutability (to Mid Atlantic)?

 

I heard the same thing at CHQ too. Supposedly a good amount of guys that were very qualified were washing out in the sim.

 

Any fact or speculation as to reasons why? I would think that fully committed study and desire to walk out the other side with a type/job/clean training record would drive most people to a successful completion of initial training?

 

I think some of the most recent washouts were do to people not taking it seriously. Some guys didn't study enough. One showed up with alcohol on his breathe. Then there were some that were just rusty after having not flown in some time.

The training profile is not hard. They give you all of the resources that you need to succeed. Study, memorize your memory items and limitations, backseat SIMs and have a good attitude and you will do just fine.

 

agreed, I had to do the full sim program coming back from furlough as the 145 was a new aircraft. i flew about 30 hours while i was gone all in light singles. I passed easily. I think dropping the mins might get some fresh blood in here who don't want to f up their first job. Only benefit of low mins. The guys who washed out of my initial class were the higher time guys fwiw.

 

Don't need to go super low, but 2000/500 is a bit much...1500/200 would get us qualified guys who aren't to wet behind the ears and would come in with a good attitude and ready to learn instead of three time furloughed grumpy old men, washouts and fired guys from other airlines, and some of the others we've gotten recently (along with some great guys).

 

12 days off minimum for lineholders, 11 for reserve. Junior lineholders not liable to get much more than that.

Depends. Recent hires are holding lines in LGA right now because the base is growing substantially, but no way to predict how long that might last. No solid word from DL on where the added E170s are going to fly, which makes a big difference.

S5 rarely has CLT overnights - the DL side doesn't touch CLT at all at present, and the UA side has only a couple flights ... EWR, and sometimes IAD or ORD ... but rarely does anything overnight in CLT. Chautauqua (on the DL side) overnights 1-2 airplanes a night in CLT. The vast majority of CLT overnights at RAH are on the Republic side ... lots of flights and no base.

4-days in LGA will go senior now that they're finally starting to get some ... lots of commuters due to (among other things) the high cost of living. Spending fewer nights in the crashpad is always desirable. Until recently, the domicile didn't have enough people to support many longer trips. That is changing.

No crew meals. Not sure what "perks" you might be referring to. LGA-based S5 pilots will have travel benefits on DL and UA, and (like all RAH employees) on the Frontier system as well. Some (but not all) of Frontier's pre-merger ZED agreements have expanded to include all RAH employees.

Commutability depends heavily on where you live and the flight schedules. The trips haven't been commutable but that may change as the domicile grows ... some seniority should allow trips (or sequences of trips) commutable on at least one end. LGA has lots of flights to lots of places (to say nothing of planes, trains, and automobiles to JFK/EWR) but no FedEx or UPS to help you out of a late-night jam.

Good luck.

 

Unless you do the LGA-ORD route