Seriously, where's the carrot?

Other regionals offer better starting may, (SkyWest, Air Wisconsin, Horizon, Commutair, Peidmont, etc.) and others offer up to a $12,000 signing bonus.

Why would anyone choose Republic? Are there that many pilots who really, really want a GSO base? Where's the carrot?

God Bless.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0

 

Seriously, where's the carrot?

Other regionals offer better starting may, (SkyWest, Air Wisconsin, Horizon, Commutair, Piedmont, etc.), a faster upgrade, (PSA, Silver, Seaborne), and others offer up to a $12,000 signing bonus, (Eagle, Silver).

Why would anyone choose Republic? Are there that many pilots who really, really, really want a GSO, IND, or SDF base? Where's the carrot?

 

Those Indy people believe IND is the center of the universe. The fact we have 289 yes voters and 287 pilots in Indy says a lot

 

+1 I couldn't agree more. There must be something in the water over there...

 

Hell no. Although I've noticed that facts on these forums are often trumped by group-think.

If everyone wants to spread rhetoric that if a new-hire comes here they'll be furloughed, sure do it, but its still highly doubtful in this environment and not based on fact. I'm not in anyway saying this is a good place to come either. But, flying jets for crappy wages is still better than being hungry and homeless if your unemployed.

The facts: First off, I'm more than 500 off the bottom now and I still move up 15-25/month. Math shows a net loss of ~20 or so airframes, -45 E-145s being parked, +23 E-175s for AA, +3 Q-400s for United. So even if we park more than the ~45 Emb-145s were expecting simple attrition will reduce our numbers to match the aircraft we're parking within a few months... Worse case scenario we stop hiring for a month or three.

Your playing perfectly into the BB guilt trip of "you guys are going to regret you turned down an awesome TA!" The reality is for 2-3 months we could barely jump over 3,000 pilots, now the ISL shows us up to 3,090 pilots for April 2014. So we've gained 90 pilots and although we turned down that crappy TA, in the short term we're staying tremendously cheaper that Eagle. This sets us up perfectly to get more American flying IMO. Don't think for a second this company won't aggressively pursue new flying, not to improve upgrade times, but to increase revenue and of course profits, the bread and butter of a higher stock price.

The "we're going to furlough rumor!" doesn't help it hurts, because it fosters and spreads fear amongst our pilot group. The type of fear that allows management to bust unions, manipulate feelings and push through crappy TA's that accelerate the race to the bottom.

 

Eagle does NOT offer a $12k bonus. Pilots are eligible for $10K if they graduate from certain schools. pilots off the street get $5k.

 

And that $5k that Eagle offers is only if you promise to stay there for at least two years. You don't have t take it, but if you do you must commit to two years otherwise you have to pay it back.

 

Yeah, its especially sketchy since we open and close bases so often. Even worse, like GSO, where they switch the Airways flying from the 145 on CHQ to the 170 on YX and then not allow FOs to switch aircraft to stay in base. But don't worry, GSO went jr on YX at the time while sr 145 from CHQ were displaced to LGA...

 

How bad is the upgrade time for the bottom reserve guy right now?