Parrot Head

Any updates on junior bases for both Shuttle and Republic, how long to hold line on either certificate ?

aperfcrcle

mostly LGA, PIT, and EWR for new hires.

Parrot Head

Is that on the Republic side (not showing a PIT base on Shuttle cert)?
Thanks

Geardownflaps30

No new hires on the s5 side. All new hires to xy side.

Parrot Head

Thanks, I had heard that there was a Shuttle class scheduled for April...

Paok

Was told the early May class was shuttle

BATOL

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!! Ok 9e was a TOOOOOTALLY different ball of wax for a number of reasons. And we could very easily have ended up being shutdown too. SkyWest literally had a handful of their APD's ready to come pick up our planes overnight! When we went through ch11 the hiring boom had not yet started so our pilots where all faced with a choice between a concessionary contract and living to fight another day or the unemployment office. We took the contract/fight. If RAH management came to YOU guys looking for a 20-25% pay cut coupled with fleet reductions that will result in downgrades, whether it passed or not, people would quit left and right to go where the money is.

See here's the thing, and this is important. In ch11 it is the court/trustee's job to represent the creditors, NOT the employees or management. They are responsible to get as much out of the company for the creditors as they can. They can do that by either restructuring the company to live on and make some form of structured payment on an adjusted debt, or by liquidating and selling off the parts to pay off the debt proportionally. If the company is restructured and lives to fight another day, EVERYBODY must pay, IOW, the pain will be shared by all, management, frontline employees, pilots, creditors, contractors, etc. Here's the problem: without good pay AND growth/movement/upgrades, you can't compete with other regionals for pilots. If you can't hire FO's than you can't replace the pilots that quit. You'll have to contract and downgrade captains to cover FO flying just to keep planes in the air. Without something like Endeavors bonus program to stop it, you'll enter a death spiral and the trustee will convert it to a liquidation. Maybe a major will swoop in and buy you out of bankruptcy like happened to us, but it could VERY easily go the other way. I would NOT stake your career on expecting this to work out the same way it did for Pinnacle/Endeavor! I wish you guys all the best, but I caution you that it will get worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better at all. I'm sorry you guys are going through this, I can tell you it sucks and it will take a couple years to resolve. You'll get lots of grey hair in he meantime.

Good luck!

Loon

Management and the ibt are being VERY transparent. Right now things are looking good. I see no reason why that will change. This bk was initiated because of the emb145 program (mainly). The labor contracts will not be touched. Keep your chins up my RAH brethren. In the long run, this bk will lead to a better, new beginning!

FlameNSky

That and a politician's campaign promises!. You can take that to the bank.

TurbineTime

And a 6 year flow to American right??? Set in stone! Guaranteed!


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