Colgan Bases
 

I'm in sim training and was just assigned a base. Does the 3 month base lock apply to a base that the company assigns to you? Thanks for the help.

no, it only applies once you move. which did u get? Let me guess SYR, ROC, TYR or IAH?

I got IAH, which was 2nd to dead last on my bid haha. I want either manchester or presque isle. anyone know of someone i could contact in IAH about crashpads?

Thanks for the info on the base lock. There's a class of 16 starting next week, so I hope that will get me back to New England at some point -Matt

Jeez, that's too bad about your assignment. Hopefully you get MHT because you get to fly into LGA and man that's a fun airport. :D

I have heard bad news about Colgan

Please, fill us all in!!

yeah i just got based in jamestown, ny anyone know anything about that base?

ya, it sucks

fly to PIT, BFD, and JST

lol, hehehe, dude, you walked right into that jamestown comment.

I take it JHW is the worst Colgan base.

I'd say Manassas is the worst base, those guys get "used and abused.. alrighty"

yeah well i'm gonna try and get out of there asap and somewhere else in the ny area maybe hpn just cause its close to home

HPN is pretty senior I believe. Both ITH and SYR are in need of pilots though.

So what was the bad news about Colgan?

They're still in operation! ;)

anyone know what the mht/pqi prospects are?

presque isle is full right now

What types of routes do the ITH and SYR pilots get to fly?

Sorry to butt in but is it pretty easy to get upstate NY? Like ROC?

ROC any SYR are pretty easy to get. WE just got a memo saying that they need FO's up there. SYR guys to to LGA, ITH goes to lga, pvd and I think they might go to ORF. I don't remember, it's been a while since I was in ITH.

SYR does the morning ORF run, not ITH

Are those guys asked to ferry broken airplanes as well? (the SYR/ITH guys)

I knew one of those bases did the morning orf run. Every base gets the chance to ferry broken planes, lol. SOme bases like HEF, ALB, and CHO get it worse than others.

I know that all of the bases wind up repositioning occasionally but usually only when their own plane breaks. I think if you get a maintenance base like ALB or HEF and HYA for the Beech you have to do all the test flights and deliveries to the other bases.

Also, the maintenance bases have to go and fly another bases flights if they break. Seen the poor guys in HYA do that more than once.

worst colgan base....well i was based in HYA then ALB

but the truth behind it all if colgan is infront of base...it is bad


why you ask children?

because colgan is bad news...

those bastards still owe me money

Good info, Thanks.

HYA and then ALB..... oh man you must have had a blast!:D Although you could have had HEF.

Speaking of HEF, is that still only maintenance or are they doing 121 out of there. It looked like there were a couple of United flights out of there (flight 5217 I think) but I wasn't sure.

it ain't a passenger flight! they only ferry back to IAD then it may be 5217!

that's what I thought but flightware.com shows 5214 and 5217 as flights between HEF and IAD. It must be just to get the planes back and forth. I was just curious because I only knew HEF as a maintenance base and then I saw those flights.

They don do united out of hef. THey do take a plane to IAD every morning to start the day and go IAD-PIT for US Airways. All of the United planes overnight at their base. IF you hear United coming out of HEF, It's a repo. They do a lot of those 5212 and 5214 flights a day out of IAD or HEF, to swap planes out, drop one off for MX etc. THere is a crew on a 5 hr sit everyday at IAD now. THis month it's CHO's turn. Next month it goes back to HPN i believe.

Ok, that explains it thanks. I know what is used for repo flight numbers so I just thought it was 121 flying when I saw the 5200's (United flight numbers) out of HEF. Thanks again!

How do you get assigned a base with colgan? I live in ROC and think they are closing ROC and BUF(anyone know why?) so SYR would be my first choice if thats true. Would a new hire on reserve get the SYR base most likley if they wanted it or how do the assignments work. What happens if I get IAH? Moving that far is NOT a option for me at this time in my life, and commuting would be a nightmare......

Several folks in the Noveber class wanted IAH and all got up east bases (ithaca manasas etc.). I think everyone that wanted IAH got it within a month.

What happens if you get IAH? Let them know you want another base, and they put you on the list. Until then, (not to be rude but) you live with it.

And yes, the commute between a NY outstation and IAH is bad. For me it was basically and all day affair.

Does anyone know how hard it would be to get SYR right now and what kinda trips SYR flies during the day? Are they out and backs or overnights?

Syracuse, NY is a Colgan mini-HUB. They have 15 lines or so. 4 Airplanes. Piedmont closed their SYR base and Airways asked Colgan to fly it.

They do both out and backs and overnights. Lines are pretty good up there. Everything but reserve is 4 on 3 off.

Syracuse flies to NYC-LaGuardia, Pittsburgh and Boston.

A lot of the lines at Colgan are just constant round trips. For instance...

SYR-LGA
LGA-SYR
SYR-LGA
LGA-SYR

Thats all you will do all month, sometimes ALL YEAR.

With that being said is SYR easy to get if your a new hire? Does it look like SYR sill stay around for a while? Would it be possible or practical to drive to work from ROC with little problems?

Coming to Colgan because of the bases is a really bad idea. They will close it on you in a heartbeat. We will be all hub based within a year.

For all you Colgan drivers, what type of flight bennifits do you have if your based in the NE with US? Could you and your family ride on PSA, Mesa or even USAirways since Colgan flies for them? Are you in the Cass system (meaning pilots can ride on other cass members for free right)? What about if your based with UA or CO is it the same as for US?