Unfortunately one has been there a year (got hired almost immediately after furloughed here). Still loves it.

 

Engines under the wings, I only wish I could fly the regional heavy...

 

I made more money in training last year lol basically was living at the in dfw . Good thai restaurant down the street by the way

 

Saturday, July 27, 2013


MEC Newsblast
Fellow American Eagle pilots,

Second, yesterday management announced a vacancy bid that does not contain any Captain vacancies. We have been told that this is the direct relation to an inability to hire sufficient First Officers. The company has indicated that despite our current need for additional Captains, upgrading First Officers at this point would create an imbalance between First Officers and Captains and therefore upgrades are being delayed.


With reference to the flow-through, due to the number of furloughed AA pilots who have now decided to return to employment at AA, it appears that the nine Eagle pilots who were originally scheduled to attend AA training in July will be delayed until October. AA had originally expected to begin hiring new hires in September and that is now expected to be delayed until the end of this year, or the beginning of next.

or the beginning of the next one, or the next one.....

There you have it. Cant hire FO's therefore no upgrades. Thats how it works if you understand...

 

Really because we run out of CA all the time and FO sitting at home. Also, an airline wants to attract new hires, then continue to upgrade. You said we weren't upgrading because we are going to park a bunch of airplanes and displace captains back to FO. We are not upgrading because AA had a huge amount of people come back at the last minute due to pay out. Give it 4-6 weeks and you will see another vacancy with upgrades. How come they have CRJ FO in the vacancy?

 

Perhaps, now that "B" scale offer doesn't look that bad now huh? New planes with engines underwing should attract more snotted riddle kids regardless of pay. And yeah, all 135's gone by Nov and the 140's starting in Dec.

As of now, by 2017 Eagle will be fleet of 47 CRJ's.

 

On paper you're right, the fleet will be that small. However anyone thinking logically can see that AA can't afford to lose that much lift. No one is able to meet hiring targets right now so they can't just shuffle that much flying to a bunch of separate regionals. Is the situation rosy? Absolutely not. Should people be actively looking for other jobs? Probably. On the other hand the sky is not falling and most sane people never wanted to be a career regional pilot anyway. Either there is a shortage and Eagle will be around long enough for people to get out and go somewhere or the shortage was never real and the shrinking of Eagle will save people from dead end regional life by forcing them into other ventures.

I will say though, your constant trolling gets a few people on here quite upset and I love reading it.

 

There aren't that many wide eye kids out there anymore?

"Second, yesterday management announced a vacancy bid that does not contain any Captain vacancies. We have been told that this is the direct relation to an inability to hire sufficient First Officers. The company has indicated that despite our current need for additional Captains, upgrading First Officers at this point would create an imbalance between First Officers and Captains and therefore upgrades are being delayed."

How would a B scale attract more new hires? We are not short on FO to be able to upgrade and you know that. We have 200-300 more FO than we do CA system wide, that's not taking into account all the captains that are tied up as instructors and management positions. The reason they are not upgrading is highlighted below. Did you see how they didn't say that we are not upgrading because we don't have airplanes, they just put the blame on not having FO. How come the company has not sent out the seniority list that was supposed to be out on the 15th? Stop trying to scare people, and play your games. You are smart enough to see what is happening and management thinks we are stupid enough to play.

"With reference to the flow-through, due to the number of furloughed AA pilots who have now decided to return to employment at AA, it appears that the nine Eagle pilots who were originally scheduled to attend AA training in July will be delayed until October. AA had originally expected to begin hiring new hires in September and that is now expected to be delayed until the end of this year, or the beginning of next."

Taking that B scale would have done nothing for us. They are not going to decide where billions of dollars worth of aircraft are going on a B scale for new hires they can't even find today. To fly what, the Ejet that RAH, Compass, SKW and EXJ will be flying. Like I said earlier, there are folks who are chasing that airplane but it isn't that many. The majority of pilots out there are not sitting there salivating to fly a Ejet, yes nice airplane but folks look at many other factors.

I'll eat my words when you can show proof to me that we are short on FO.

 

All the more reason why Im curious about the ORD displacements. Send 30 FOs from a busy base to one where they will sit on their ass. If Im missing something please enlighten me but it just seems decisions are being made with a dart board and a bottle of whiskey.

 

As soon as Rupgnant starts flying their shiny new jets in ORD instead of just taking up our gate space, we'll start losing EMJ flying. AE is just getting ahead of the power curve. We're already short on Capts, so that list is already started the downsizing.