cfiguy11

Hello, this is my first thread so all of you take it easy on me.

But seriously, here is my question. I have a potential offer for the Colgan class in Jan. However, i have a Comair interview in Dec. I am trying to decide what the best route to take would be.

On one hand, i could go to Colgan, upgrade to Cpt. in 18 months or so and start building that precious turbine PIC time. Pilots there do not sit on reserve so they are flying hard from day one. In theory, 5 years down the road, have the PIC time to head to the legacys

On the other, hypothetically speaking, if i go the comair route, from what i read, i would be sitting right seat for 6-7 years. Also, from what i read, pilots are sitting on reserve up to a year at comair (XJT. Eagle, etc). The Upgrade times are alot longer here so it would take quite a bit longer to head to the majors.

I would love to hear from you guys who have gone through this process already. Thanks a bunch

JoeyMeatballs

well I was based up in ALB initially at Colgan and I was on reserve for 6 months at COLGAN, I only got off reserve when I base traded to ABE. COMAIR's future is quite unstable right now, but any airline you pick is a gamble so ya never know. Where do you want to go? Where do you want to live? Do you want union protection? Do you want to fly a Turbo-prop, or a jet (SAAB is awesome). Pay? QOL? All those should be what leads to the final decision of which airline to pick. Either way if you get an interview at ANY AIRLINE, go never hurts for the experience and also never hurts to have a few options on the table

P.S. Upgrade for you at Colgan would not be 18 months!!!!!!!!! I have buddies that have been there a year and they have 60-80 Fo's that need to upgrade before them, and right now my buddies say they are upgrading 3 a month and the 60-80'fo's is for guys that were hired a year ago imagine how many there would be aheadof you, if go there

captchris

Fly the CRJ at Comair.... worse case if they do tank you can go to another CRJ operator or a fractional.

KiloAlpha

why a hard-on for the CRJ ?

btw, frax are hiring pilots w/o turbine time.. so there goes your shiney jet theory

JoeyMeatballs

true Kilo, but better chance with TURBOJET

KiloAlpha

ya if you're flying the 727, if not you'll have to settle for turboFAN lol

JoeyMeatballs

hahah good catch brotha

STILL GROUNDED

If the bases work for you take the Colgan job. Comair is going to be a mess for a while. If the thing with US air goes down it is going to be a real mess.

You may sit reserve at Colgan, you will sit reserve at Comair. Current payscales at Comair don't mean squat so you can forget that. If you are looking to upgrade come to AirBig Mess, once you meet atp mins you will be in a Captain class if you want it. It ain't pretty and it ain't shinny but its pic this decade. You'll need to want to work without a you owe me attitude which seems to be going around. I have heard of guys flight instructing 3-5 years before and these cats with 500 hours think the first airline job should be with Mainline PAN AM. Them days is gone.

Either way good luck, don't pass on something you can make work for a couple of fans in the back of the plane.

JoeyMeatballs

thats very true if ya get the offer and nothing else comes along you gotta go, I think everybody should get Turbo-prop time, not only because its fun, but becuase you do more handlfying, and you do many, many approaches, makes ya sharp. I can honestly say that I have never had more fun in my life flying around in the SAAB doing 4 landings a day, good fun, the 1900 I here is even more fun.

flyguyniner11

ever notice that once a thread is started about colgan saaborowski is one of the first ones to post! i dont know how much i'd trust his opinion he seems to waver a lot on what he thinks