Hey guys,

Thinking about putting my stuff in to Cape Air. Sounds like a pretty good place to get started on my career.

Currently I have 1300 total, 100 In flight IFR, 200 Night, 800 135 XC, and 65 multi.

Is this enough to be considered competitive for an FO or Freight position?

How senior is the LNC or HGR base? The reason I ask is that my dad lives near by and I can live with him for cheap.

Where do most pilots go after spending time at Cape Air? What type of doors can it potentially open?

As for flexibility. I'm a single guy and a bit of a nomad by nature. Sadly, I can fit everything I own in to a hatchback Ford Focus....

I would appreciate anyone's input good or bad.

After doing the phone screen, I got the sense that they are done hiring FO's for a while. Get to ATP mins and try to get on as a CA.

Any rumors/talks of expansion into the Northern Ohio/Western PA/Southwestern NY area?

...not trying to start one, just fishing for info.

-mini

Looks like the DOT just approved LEB-HPN flights, though I think the plan is to reduce a couple of the BOS runs instead of adding flights out of LEB. That's all I got for now.

LEB-HPN? That's cool. When's that starting up? I wonder what that will do to LEB's staffing...LEB already runs a ton of flights.

I talked to a CSR at Signature HPN Saturday. He mentioned Thursday and Sunday service to the Vineyard, Nantucket, etc starting "soon". Not sure what that's worth, but I figured I'd pass it along.

-mini

Rumour central has a couple of the LEB-BOS segments getting swapped for the LEB-HPNs. And the schedule allegedly is Early AM to HPN, sit All Day Long, Late return to LEB. If so, they'll likely need a couple more lines to make it work.

In other gossip, expect ACK and expanded MVY lines this summer, with fewer HYA lines. Maybe with company subsidized housing.

Ehh, pass. I like my short, efficient days. Get in, get the job done, collect my min guarantee.

Seems like if we kept a HPN-ACK schedule going we could just have those LEB-HPN pilots through-stop to ACK instead of sit all day. But hey, I just work here.

Any idea on when the LEB-HPN is supposed to start up? (I know it was asked a few days ago, but wanted to see if there was any info)

Also, any class rumors in prep for the summer?

May 15th? I saw a newspaper blurb posted on the board, but can't quite remember.

Edit... March 15th...

Classes depend on the number of pilots who don't return from the Carib this winter. There are always some. How many is anyone's guess. I was told there is a pool with a dozen plus swimmers and 'they' are looking to get another ten to a dozen poolies.