It seems like ANY company that goes to extended measures to excite people or make themselves look like the best company choice is a win for the overall career field.

Keep in mind, they could simply just sit back and let people come to them, but at least they are doing a little extra.

That sounds like a good thing to me.

 

Something extra would be increasing pay...
Eagle has some possible serious problems to deal with in the not to near future, do you really think that having a career fair is gonna make Eagle look any better? Eagle is simply trying to fill seats, which it seems they're having trouble doing right now, and there's a reason for that (see above).
Eagle isn't doing this because they want to, they're doing it because they have to. This soon is gonna be the case for all the regionals, they dont care about you or your career, they care about making $ and staffing their airline.. Just my opinion.

 

Regardless of your opinion of AE or RAH, I believe Eagle is exhibiting forward thinking. They are actively courting a dwindling resource (pilots). RAH could be a really great place to work but they seem to be focused on the battle with their flight crews. This industry will leave them behind if they don't change paths.

 

Not desperate enough. Got over 3k hours pic turbine, but because of two check ride failures no dice. Even went to the job fair to discuss this. Until they let go of unrealistic expectations.... They will have problems.

 

Are the two checkride failure during the training for your license or 121/135 checkrides?

 

RAH has a a lot more problems then just battling with their crews... I dont think they could ever be "a great place to work".

 

not to be a Richard cranium, but the guys with busts would just be a bandaid on the problem, they really are a small % of pilots applying to regionals. The litigation trade off of hiring them is just not worth it. Colgan is why.

 

Do you want to go to AE?

 

Fixed it for you. I work with a lot of pilots that would go to the regionals if they didn't pay so little. Some of them even former regional guys. They enjoyed the job, just not the pay.

 

Catch-22 for AE. If they raise pay across the board to attract more pilots, they price themselves out of not only of their own flying, they can't competitively bid against other carriers. If they don't raise pay, few will consider Eagle as a worthwhile employer and they can't meet their current requirements, let alone future feed expansion. As a result of that, it adds strength to AE ultimately shrinking, especially with higher attrition than attraction. AE will almost HAVE to shrink and that may be a handy excuse for management to use when awarding feed contracts elsewhere.

On another thread, it sounds like a new "peanuts player" has been born at ASA with rock bottom large RJ rates. That is what will be the litmus going forward. The skinnier the pilots, the more flying they will get. It seems the only viable carrot left at a regional, is the fast upgrade and that means growth via contract. Unfortunately as stated, AE's catch-22 makes it a difficult path forward for them.