Pinnacle info??
10-29-2006, 09:33 AM
#2
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I have heard that when you are on reserve, you are at the airport on reserve. No 'sit at home' callout period. No sirree, you are waiting at the airport to get called.
Unless you have a very good reason to work there, you can do a lot better than Pinnacle.
Unless you have a very good reason to work there, you can do a lot better than Pinnacle.
10-29-2006, 10:27 AM
#4
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Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: EMB CA
Posts: 40
New hire pay is $200 a week and they put you up in a hotel while you're in training. Once you pass your checkride you get full pay. Upgrades are 2-3 years. You need 3000 hours (insurance mins.) or 3500 if you have no time in the airplane. You are trained in Memphis, and you do get to bid for any of the three bases. That doesn't mean you will get it though.
Minimum days off are 10 while on reserve. It is usually 5 on, 2 off, 5 on, 3 off and so on. You can trade days to get 4 off in a row. I've done it. Detroit is really the only hub I know off that uses airport ready reserve, and I'm not sure that it is used that often. Otherwise, all of your reserve is home reserve with a 90 min. call out.
Crews are great, schelduling and management suck. Contract is not done, and with Mesaba just reaching a TA I think it's not going to be done for a while. Management is going to want to pit us against Mesaba. Management has consistently told us that they want us to be the lowest bidder out there. We've said there is no way in hell we're taking any contract that lowers the standards.
I flew with the MEC chairman the other day and was talking to him about this stuff. He flat out told management and me that the only way that management is getting a crappy contract with us is if they go into bankruptcy and shove it up his ass. Otherwise he won't sign it. And yes, that was a direct quote.
Hope this helps.
Minimum days off are 10 while on reserve. It is usually 5 on, 2 off, 5 on, 3 off and so on. You can trade days to get 4 off in a row. I've done it. Detroit is really the only hub I know off that uses airport ready reserve, and I'm not sure that it is used that often. Otherwise, all of your reserve is home reserve with a 90 min. call out.
Crews are great, schelduling and management suck. Contract is not done, and with Mesaba just reaching a TA I think it's not going to be done for a while. Management is going to want to pit us against Mesaba. Management has consistently told us that they want us to be the lowest bidder out there. We've said there is no way in hell we're taking any contract that lowers the standards.
I flew with the MEC chairman the other day and was talking to him about this stuff. He flat out told management and me that the only way that management is getting a crappy contract with us is if they go into bankruptcy and shove it up his ass. Otherwise he won't sign it. And yes, that was a direct quote.
Hope this helps.
10-29-2006, 05:38 PM
#5
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Joined APC: Feb 2006
Posts: 228
Originally Posted by copcar1988
New hire pay is $200 a week and they put you up in a hotel while you're in training. Once you pass your checkride you get full pay. Upgrades are 2-3 years. You need 3000 hours (insurance mins.) or 3500 if you have no time in the airplane. You are trained in Memphis, and you do get to bid for any of the three bases. That doesn't mean you will get it though.
Minimum days off are 10 while on reserve. It is usually 5 on, 2 off, 5 on, 3 off and so on. You can trade days to get 4 off in a row. I've done it. Detroit is really the only hub I know off that uses airport ready reserve, and I'm not sure that it is used that often. Otherwise, all of your reserve is home reserve with a 90 min. call out.
Crews are great, schelduling and management suck. Contract is not done, and with Mesaba just reaching a TA I think it's not going to be done for a while. Management is going to want to pit us against Mesaba. Management has consistently told us that they want us to be the lowest bidder out there. We've said there is no way in hell we're taking any contract that lowers the standards.
I flew with the MEC chairman the other day and was talking to him about this stuff. He flat out told management and me that the only way that management is getting a crappy contract with us is if they go into bankruptcy and shove it up his ass. Otherwise he won't sign it. And yes, that was a direct quote.
Hope this helps.
Minimum days off are 10 while on reserve. It is usually 5 on, 2 off, 5 on, 3 off and so on. You can trade days to get 4 off in a row. I've done it. Detroit is really the only hub I know off that uses airport ready reserve, and I'm not sure that it is used that often. Otherwise, all of your reserve is home reserve with a 90 min. call out.
Crews are great, schelduling and management suck. Contract is not done, and with Mesaba just reaching a TA I think it's not going to be done for a while. Management is going to want to pit us against Mesaba. Management has consistently told us that they want us to be the lowest bidder out there. We've said there is no way in hell we're taking any contract that lowers the standards.
I flew with the MEC chairman the other day and was talking to him about this stuff. He flat out told management and me that the only way that management is getting a crappy contract with us is if they go into bankruptcy and shove it up his ass. Otherwise he won't sign it. And yes, that was a direct quote.
Hope this helps.
Thats great for Mngt, they get to operate and pay you on your current ****^y as# contract as status quo.
Sat away from Peanuckle
10-29-2006, 10:29 PM
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Position: 7ER B...whatever that means.
Posts: 3,966
Originally Posted by Puckhead
How hard would it be to get into MSP? Im from there thats why I ask.
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