How're travel bennies?

United and AA, most likely Delta after the completion of combining the certificates.

Thanks for the quick response. How's the priority on United flights?

Just finished the interview. I like the place and the people I met at RAH today. The interview was pretty much the same as many have said previously. Thanks everyone for their experience.



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Best of luck!

Does anyone have an email address or a phone number of the pilot recruitment department at Republic.

Thanks

Seems like a few people are interested in EWR. Since I'm based there, feel free to reach out. Anyone can. I'm happy to help.

Thank you for the info

Apparently this email address is no longer in use

[email protected]

[email protected]
Sr Talent Acquisition Manager at RAH


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Thanks, but these email addresses are no longer valid

Thanks, but these email addresses are no longer valid

Apparently, this address works, Thanks

So after pitting employees against each other in 2015. Fooling pilots into voting yes on a substandard contract. Driving the company into a fake bankruptcy to steal as much money as possible. Giving myself and my team of crooks millions in bonuses. How do I put the cherry on top? Fire 250 associates in CMH and MCI and reap my millions the rest of this year. Please keep running the airline on time so I can get an even larger bonus. And continue to look after one another and our mainline partners guests.

God Bless.

BB

PS,

It is purely coincidental we took Yammer offline at this difficult time

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No problem, she was great to deal with for me.

How are travel benefits for those based in EWR?

Same as most rpa bases. United and American for family and friends, other airlines for family too. We don't have the delta benefits yet but I think we will when shuttle merges by end of year.

So would the jump from a WO with a flow to RAH be worth it right now? How are job prospects at the majors 2 and 3 years out from date of hire for you guys?

What would be motivating the jump? There's got to be more reason than getting hired at a major. A new hire at RAH isn't likely to be at a major in three years, unless the majors start waiving the 1000 TPIC threshold. Current upgrade times are 3.9 years and dropping, but they won't get to the 1/1.5 year mark for a long time, if ever.

People tell me that picking a regional with a larger airplane, like the E175, is good for QOL. Mainly because of longer trips/less legs, as opposed to a smaller airplane flying multiple, shorter legs. Any truth to this?

Yeah there's some truth to this. I jumped over from pdt a few years ago. Although the dash is a fun plane to fly the schedules were horrible. I was always right around min days off over there, don't remember average credit as its been a few years. Flying the 170 now I probably average 14-15 days off a month with 88ish hours of credit.

Yup, unless you choose to work for a company that will base you in outstation hell...like Republic. Nearly every trip will start at zero-dark-thirty and you'll be home on the last day roundabout midnight......Even on a two-day trip.

QOL while constantly fatigued from rotating schedules is not good.

On the flip side, some of us are thankful for those outstation bases as without them we would be commuters. Early shows and late finishes are a fact of life a much better alternative to living in some expensive east coast city or commuting in my opinion. YMMV

I like to think of it as, "mandatory commuting."

If you live in the base, then it's great. You always have a guaranteed seat on the first flight, get paid to commute, and with no penalties for missing it. If you don't live there...well... then you're commuting to an outstation to make your 'mandatory commute.'

The company has said that it's major partners want it to get away from the outstation model.. however, the rumors are that the outstation bases are expected to grow significantly in the near future.

Many (not all, certainly) in an outstation base do live there. For me, living in an outstation has been a great experience. Unfortunately for QOL, many also do not live in outstations nor want to. They tend to be fairly successful at transferring out of base, however, if "get to a hub at all costs" is their goal. Many new hires at RAH have been going to East Coast hubs for awhile now. Don't forget the contract additionally allows dropping deadheads at the beginning and end of trips, so many reserve commuters will meet the flight at the hub they would have deadheaded into. It is what you make of it, and I'm sorry if you've been trapped in an outstation against your will. It would truly suck to be stuck in one long-term and be commuting through a hub base to get there.

Remember, living in base is huge. It's a great feeling finishing a trip and getting in the car.

As far as flying longer trips, I purposely bid for those. I just finished a 4 day with flights such as ewr-okc, ewr dfw, ewr-mem. Each day was 2 or 3 flights. My previous job was 8 legs a day and a 14 hour day, so this is a breeze. Also, and it might seem silly, but the environment in the 170 is less stressful than other airplanes. The packs do a really great job and I find the seats fairly comfortable. These little things add up to a better QOL.

I'm not sure which outstations are going to grow any further. PIT is about as large as it's going to get, and the others are likely shrinking. IAH will probably be happening soon as well as CLT once the AA deal is completed.

With MCI and CMH losing a lot of MX capability, I wouldn't be surprised to see those operations shrink significantly, but most likely not until after a base opening elsewhere.


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Wait there is talk about Republic creating an IAH base?

Last week while at the interview, the Sr. Talent Acquisition Manager said there was about a potential base in IAH, but this will be done after the BK proceedings end.

I'm fully aware that I sound constantly negative, but after commuting to an outstation base from "out west" at Shuttle America for 4.5 years -all the time hearing management hinting about potential bases in Denver and Houston- reading such things reminds me of my days in law enforcement when I learned to believe only 10% of what I hear and half of what I see.

Republic recruiters are quite famous for being less than truthful....particularly when their job is on the line for not making their numbers.

The irony of the entire situation at RJET (now RJETQ) is that had they dumped these outstation bases 3 years ago, the pool of potential pilots would have greatly expanded had said applicants not faced the oftentimes unpalatable prospect of being forced to move to CMH, SDF, IND, PIT or GSO.

Oh, I almost forgot about ACY and IFP....

Excuse me, .... I'd like to make this as professional as I can.



I have a weiner.



And balls.




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RJET is still telling new people as of that we have a DEN base. It closed in April. Despite the fact that there are >90 overnights in DEN, between IND and CMH we will never see a base there again. IAH is similar but may have a better chance of reopening.

If ORD is your idea of "west" then RAH is the place for you. MCI will be closed as a crew base in 18 months or less I expect (we'll see).

If you can fog a mirror and don't physically assault the interviewer I think you'll get it.

Dunno, I hear that the cognitive test is challenging. And that candidates aren't getting an offer if they fail.

Your view that current basing negatively affects recruiting is very off base. Recruiting suffered due to a substandard contract and nothing more. A very large % of pilots chose rah for the outstation bases. Your attempts to close and/or shrink those bases for a very self serving reason is poor representation from a union representative. You have long held the view outstations were bad. You didn't hold that view back when you were displaced. It's not a coincidence that your research backs up your bias beliefs.

I interviewed last week and they specifically told us that DEN as a base is closed.

1. I don't work for Republic...any changes that come about as the result of the expression of my viewpoints will not improve my lot in life and therefore, by definition, are not "self serving."

2. Out of the hundreds of pilots with which I worked while at Republic, I flew with very few (I'm talking fewer than 10) who lived in one of these outstation bases before being hired. I've spoken with numerous pilots who have decided against RJETQ because they didn't like the outstation bases.

3. The day after the 55 aircraft deal with United was announced, Wayne Heller personally told me that he understood that the outstation basing structure was a recruiting disadvantage.

4. I am not and never have been a "union representative."

5. I was never displaced.

6. My "biased beliefs" are actually a reasonable point of view that is largely representative of most pilots who don't live in the NE part of the country and/or aren't Steelers or Colts fans.

That covers everything you wrote....all of it wrong.