Best regional jet outfit for a new FO?
05-14-2014 | 05:08 PM
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I think the best regionals are SkyWest, Horizon and Air Wisconsin. AWAC is good if you are East Coast, SkyWest if you are West. Horizon is the Alaska feeder and is great if you live NW.
But, Horizon has a longer time to captain upgrade, and is a lot smaller. I also think they are not short of pilots...can anyone confirm this? From what I have heard, AWAC and SkyWest are both short of pilots, but not extremely so like most of the other regionals. I believe SkyWest is bigger than AWAC. SkyWest also has turboprops, as does Horizon, while AWAC is all jets.
But, Horizon has a longer time to captain upgrade, and is a lot smaller. I also think they are not short of pilots...can anyone confirm this? From what I have heard, AWAC and SkyWest are both short of pilots, but not extremely so like most of the other regionals. I believe SkyWest is bigger than AWAC. SkyWest also has turboprops, as does Horizon, while AWAC is all jets.
05-14-2014 | 06:18 PM
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Best regional jet outfit for a new FO?
What makes AWAC so good of a place to work? Also aren't they about to come up on contract renewal? I was under impression they were in trouble because they have an all 200 fleet?
05-15-2014 | 01:29 AM
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I forgot about Compass.
AWAC has good pilot mgmt relations, decent work rules and scheduling. The two guys I know there...only complaint is is a regional. I don't think they'll have any problem switching to bigger aircraft.They financially bailed out USAir so USAir owes them.
AWAC has good pilot mgmt relations, decent work rules and scheduling. The two guys I know there...only complaint is is a regional. I don't think they'll have any problem switching to bigger aircraft.They financially bailed out USAir so USAir owes them.
05-15-2014 | 05:55 PM
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If your looking at commuting to New York City don't forget EWR which has 5 flights a day to Buffalo. Regionals with a EWR base are CommutAir, RAH, and ExpressJet. I work at CommutAir and I really like it here. Definitely something to look into!
05-30-2014 | 09:10 PM
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Just searching through these forums, I'm bit of a newbie here. I'm Canadian but have a green card through family ties.
a little bio about my self, I'm king air driver in the artic doing civil medevac missions. 1400tt 1200 turbine, 150mpic, aviation associate and in the process of completing my 4yr degree in underwater basket weaving...
ultimately I'd like to move on to a major airline such as united, delta, American and such. im sure this might have been asked before; I'm searching for good flow through regional airlines, I've heard eagle has a flow to American, and compass to Delta? are there any more with good flow throughs?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
a little bio about my self, I'm king air driver in the artic doing civil medevac missions. 1400tt 1200 turbine, 150mpic, aviation associate and in the process of completing my 4yr degree in underwater basket weaving...
ultimately I'd like to move on to a major airline such as united, delta, American and such. im sure this might have been asked before; I'm searching for good flow through regional airlines, I've heard eagle has a flow to American, and compass to Delta? are there any more with good flow throughs?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
05-30-2014 | 10:32 PM
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Why not fly in Canada ??? I hear all of the Canadian pilots are 100 times better then us American pilots are! Or how easy is it for me to get a job in Canada? I flew with a bunch of Canadian pilots and was constantly told how much better they are. In fact if you are commonwealth person you are a better pilot at least what I have always been told. Don't really have a chip but I loved hearing how inferior American pilots are from commonwealth pilots who are not flying in there respective home country.
05-30-2014 | 11:34 PM
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My list of best regional airlines for a new F/O:
Harvard School of Law
Virginia Tech School of Medicine
MIT
Cal-Tech
Stanford School of Business
Hell even ITT technical institutes are better "regional airlines."
Don't kill you love of flying by becoming an airline pilot. Take a different career path, one that makes you wealthy then buy and fly your own jet on vacations to the tropics...
This is a no-brainer man.
Harvard School of Law
Virginia Tech School of Medicine
MIT
Cal-Tech
Stanford School of Business
Hell even ITT technical institutes are better "regional airlines."
Don't kill you love of flying by becoming an airline pilot. Take a different career path, one that makes you wealthy then buy and fly your own jet on vacations to the tropics...
This is a no-brainer man.
05-31-2014 | 04:13 AM
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Why not fly in Canada ??? I hear all of the Canadian pilots are 100 times better then us American pilots are! Or how easy is it for me to get a job in Canada? I flew with a bunch of Canadian pilots and was constantly told how much better they are. In fact if you are commonwealth person you are a better pilot at least what I have always been told. Don't really have a chip but I loved hearing how inferior American pilots are from commonwealth pilots who are not flying in there respective home country.
05-31-2014 | 06:55 AM
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I've flown with quite a few Canadians at my US regional. Getting a good gig as a Canadian pilot can be pretty tough, according to them. Incidentally, all of the Canucks I've flown with were good pilots, yet humble with good personalities. I'm not doubting your own experience at all... But as usual, it probably comes down to the person as far as personality goes.
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