I hope you love Ohio or Indiana, because you'll be living there.

Although, rumor has it that ORD is opening in August on the Republic cert, but those FO spots will be mostly filled by commuters via vacancy bid. However, some new hires might be able to slide in there...it's happened on the Shuttle side recently.

 

They informed us that PIT would be the first E175 base in Aug, PHL in Sept, MCI in OCT, and ORD in OCT. I expect DFW by next year... Have you heard something different?

 

Who told you that? If it was the guys doing the interviews they have no clue what is really going on. Then again neither do the guys at the top.

 

You didn't hear it from me. My crystal ball doesn't lie, check back at the end of the year. Ask some of the ExpressJet pilots hired in the last couple years if they are still on reserve. You will be surprised, some are on reserve more than 2 years.[/QUOTE]


This statement is inaccurate. I'm on the ERJ side and can honestly say that there is nobody with 2 year seniority on reserve unless that person wants to be. I got just over 2 years a 2 months and can hold a line comfortably in all bases. In IAH, where I'm based, I have 80 lineholders behind me, then on average 50 more relief lines, and then come reserves. There are, however, people who got hired at the end of the last hiring wave that ended in May of 2012, and have been sitting reserve since then. This is obviously normal for any airline that stops hiring. The first class this year started in March, so these people will slowly get off reserve as the newhires start coming on line. I don't know where you're getting the info from, but you're obviously misinformed. I'd recommend in the future to not give out info about an airline unless you work there. It creates a lot of misinformation and serves no good to people who have legitimate questions.

 

There's no way I would go to RAH. Quality of life should be your goal. Consider consistent scheduled 10-14 hour duty days, 5-7 legs a day, rarely is an overnight longer than 9-11 hours and with mx/wx/crew cancelations, your pay will suffer. To each their own, good luck!

 

This is so far from the truth I don't even know where to begin. My average legs per day is 3 with lots of 2 leg days. I have countless 4 to 6 hour duty days with long 25 hour layovers. Maybe once a month I will have a long 13 hour day but my average duty day is 8 hours. The average flight length is 2.5 hours with some 4 hour flights. New hires are getting a line with 14-15 days off. I had 17-18 days off a month when I was a senior FO on the 170. I never lost money one time out of 6 years with a cancellation. I was always reassigned after a cancelled flight which you still get paid if you do something else. If you fly a 78 hour line and all of your flights get cancelled for the whole month and you never work 1 minute you still get paid for 75 hours and lose 3 hours of pay. The choice is yours...1.5 years of reserve in a corporate style jet vs 1 month of reserve in an airliner.

 

My vote is for the corporate style jet.

 

That's a false statement, the quality of life at RAH is better then what you have described. My roommate is an FO who was hired in July of 2012, he went to the Shuttle certificate. I believe that he was only on reserve for two to three weeks. He consistently has around 13 to 16 days off per month and he rarely will fly five legs in one day. Most days are 2 to 3 legs. His only complaint was the first year pay. With the growth that is occurring over at RAH, I would say that you should go there over Express Jet. IMHO.....

 

Meanwhile FO's on the -145 are living a completely different life. Some of the mid '08 hires are just now getting lines.

 

That's cool ..... We will make more money flying our corporate style jet then you do flying your big airliner.