As informative and eye opening as the rahcontract website is, the truth of the matter is that for the majority of guys around 1000-1500 hours working at RAH would be a drastic improvement in QoL. This especially holds true to anyone that happens to live in a RAH base city.

CFIs, jumper dumpers, and some 135s have much poorer working conditions(and less pay) than RAH would afford.

I work at a middle of the road regional and as **** poor as it sounds I would way rather be doing this than teaching Germans how to enter the pattern at an uncontrolled field.

So when all you guys at RAH get mad at people for accepting a job there try to put yourself in their shoes. Besides, you accepted a job there too right?

Good points.

So, if your coworker jumped off a bridge, you're going to follow? A 2yr training contract isn't worth it IMO.

A little bit over the top on correlation, don't you think?
Pagey is right on the money.

So by not directly answering his question, our responses are sophomoric? With that line of thinking, most responses on all of APC are sophomoric.

Don't forget that Wayne likes his Arnie Palmer right after the 11th hole with a splash of vodka & a shot of employee's tears.

No one from the pilot group is going to mess with the new hires.

We just want to make sure that they know the realities before coming here. We know that guys that have been doing stalls with Chinese students with less than ideal english skills for really, really poor pay are desperate to move on to something better. What we don't want to see is someone give up that job, bypassing other hiring carriers, to come here then get furloughed in the fall because the summer schedule is over, or as a negotiating tactic, and be put in even worse financial hardship.

The really sad part is that many of the pilots (particularly 2007 FO's) went to Republic believing they were going to one of the strongest regionals, one that was growing, with reasonable upgrade time, and strong leadership. What a difference five years make. One of my best friends over there was a Dec. 2007 hire. Had he gone to Compass, he would now be a Captain with a flow through to Delta. If he had gone to Mesa, he would be on the street.

Predicting which regional is the right place to go is kind of like picking which pit bull to bet on in dog fight. None of them are going to be pretty when it is all over, but 50% of them will survive.

Guys,

I'm sad to say that what Weasel Boy says above is VALID information that should be considered before making your decision to come. I've personally experienced AND witnessed this airline furlough the bottom 120 to 150 pilots 3 out of the 4 previous years I've been here. Folks considering this airline, need to know that seasonal furlough's are a very real part of being employed here, simple as that.

On the topic of interview gouge, I would hope that those that have interviewed and have been hired would make that info available. I know its not much help but I do know that we are doing IOE next month on classes finishing up their training this month. Maybe those guys will put something here or the usual places we go for gouge. Wish I had better info but what I could tell you would be outdated stuff as I've been here 4 yrs. If I run onto anybody new I'll try to talk them onto posting their gouge here. Best of luck to those who apply!

[QUOTE=pagey;1158224]As informative and eye opening as the rahcontract website is, the truth of the matter is that for the majority of guys around 1000-1500 hours working at RAH would be a drastic improvement in QoL. This especially holds true to anyone that happens to live in a RAH base city.

CFIs, jumper dumpers, and some 135s have much poorer working conditions(and less pay) than RAH would afford.

I work at a middle of the road regional and as **** poor as it sounds I would way rather be doing this than teaching Germans how to enter the pattern at an uncontrolled field.

So when all you guys at RAH get mad at people for accepting a job there try to put yourself in t
heir shoes. Besides, you accepted a job there too right?[

No one is going to be mad at anyone for making a choice to work at RAH we just want them to be informed.

Bcak when I got hired GOJet had just started getting their aircraft. I was about to hit apply so I could be a part of a new growing airline when a good friend of mine at UA told me what it was all about. I did some research and found out what GoJet actually was. Thank god I did not apply there and I bought my friend a beer.

I traded a senior CA position at GoJet for 6 years of FO at RAH, and I think that was a great trade.

STAY INFORMED

[QUOTE=MasterOfPuppets;1158854]You certainly have my respect RAH bro! Good perspective.