Bases in Florida.
05-05-2016, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Lyon188
I live in Orlando and I flew with Silver Airways for a year. I left in March. I was MCO based and they do day trips. Great job to be home a lot and I had a blast flying to the islands and around Florida. It's also a great pilot group. Unfortunately you get abused pretty bad from crew scheduling (not their fault). Their running extremely short on pilots because their not doing anything to retain them. There's no flow/interview setup and it's very difficult to go from there to a major. On top of that it's very poor pay. They are in the middle of renegotiating a contract but who knows how long it could take. I left for Endeavor and I'm VERY happy here. All their bases are easily commutable from MCO and the future/pay/growth is fantastic.
05-05-2016, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Lyon188
I live in Orlando and I flew with Silver Airways for a year. I left in March. I was MCO based and they do day trips. Great job to be home a lot and I had a blast flying to the islands and around Florida. It's also a great pilot group. Unfortunately you get abused pretty bad from crew scheduling (not their fault). Their running extremely short on pilots because their not doing anything to retain them. There's no flow/interview setup and it's very difficult to go from there to a major. On top of that it's very poor pay. They are in the middle of renegotiating a contract but who knows how long it could take. I left for Endeavor and I'm VERY happy here. All their bases are easily commutable from MCO and the future/pay/growth is fantastic.
Flying around the islands sounds awesome, but you can make nearly twice what they pay, if you were go to a regional instead. Just trying to understand....
05-06-2016, 12:27 PM
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I've been trying to get MCO base and still waiting. Based in IAD for almost 4 months already. I got a job offer with Envoy and I'm considering big time. Better benefits etc. Pilot and flt attendant group at silver is awesome. Nice people to work. But if they don't bring a good pay raise soon and other benefits to keep and attract mlre pilots who knows whats gonna happen. This month I count like 10 pilots that left Silver.
05-06-2016, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Elvin102
I think Miami will be open again for Envoy may be this year or beginning of next year. Heard the performance with Republic in Miami is horrible.
05-07-2016, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by FoodStampFO
Spirit lowered their mins to 2kTT with 1k multi with the FLL base. G4 has 4 bases in FL with rumors of opening a 5th FL base in JAX and I've heard of them hiring with 500hrs of 121 turbine.
03-24-2017, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Lyon188
I live in Orlando and I flew with Silver Airways for a year. I left in March. I was MCO based and they do day trips. Great job to be home a lot and I had a blast flying to the islands and around Florida. It's also a great pilot group. Unfortunately you get abused pretty bad from crew scheduling (not their fault). Their running extremely short on pilots because their not doing anything to retain them. There's no flow/interview setup and it's very difficult to go from there to a major. On top of that it's very poor pay. They are in the middle of renegotiating a contract but who knows how long it could take. I left for Endeavor and I'm VERY happy here. All their bases are easily commutable from MCO and the future/pay/growth is fantastic.
03-24-2017, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by RyanP
Yeah, they are growing into more flights they cant staff. Envoy got back 40 lines worth of that MIA flying for May. Hopefully it continues until we get our base back.
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