Hey, I dont work at Republic, if you dont know, dont just start guessing! Also, enjoy your upgrade over there, your going to love being on reserve forever as a captain, or maybe you will be able to make a quick exit to a "major", lets all hope things start do moving. With the stagnation your airline has, being on reserve as a Captain is just as bad as a jail sentence as reserve work rules in the outdated contract dont exist, so have fun with your upgrade, good luck, and have fun being on reserve forever

"pilots" in 50 seat jet houses should not throw stones...

haha that was a good one

Reserve captain beats senior FO anyday

Dashtrash300 you are right and hom you couldn't be any more wrong and negative. Being a captain comes with great responsibility including being in command of your ship and advancing career oppurtunities. We hire captains, we dont hire people who want to be right seaters for life because they miss there girlfriends back at home.

@PiedmontCLT, Was your profile picture taken from that men's club?

Looks more to me like from the vacant lot....

Please. Are you seriously trying to say that Piedmont hires future "Captains" with 300 hrs, and 15 multi? Piedmont hires whatever they can get, and whoever they can push through training. They try to hire people who they can push around and will accept flying an un-airworthy aircraft, as opposed true Captains who will refuse the aircraft risking disciplinary action. Anyone who thinks reserve captain is better than senior FO any day, is on an unrecoverable ego trip.

At this company, reserve Captain is only a means to an end. Yes, it is a huge responsibility, not to be taken lightly, but friends, family, and life outside of work is infinitely more important than being abused on reserve as a Captain. If anyone thinks its better than senior FO, they have their priorities bordering insanity.

100% true...I timed my upgrade perfectly so I could skip reserve and go straight into a buildup. Otherwise I would have never taken it. Reserve at PDT is pure hell. The fact that despite my more or less decent rapport with training I still think as a whole group the mentality of the training department boarders that of the insanely paranoid! They fail pilots in initial, CQ and upgrade at the drop of a hat for absurd reasons not because they are evil or really even care about you one way or the other, i.e. Mr. T.O. But because they are so utterly paranoid at getting hammered by the FAA for singing off someone that that they deem a weak pilot. But for any senior F/O..if you can't hold a line straight out of upgrade SOE the risk to your career going through upgrade is NOT WORTH IT...Leave, stop racking up useless SIC TP time and go to another regional. You may go straight reserve and year one pay, but you will be flying equipment that will actually have value on your resume and that will open more career doors. I can tell you that with already having over 1000 TPIC, all of it TP between Dashes and King Airs, my resume is still getting "bottomed"..Those who got out...talk to them if you know them...Every single one of them had strong internals...none of them, not KB, not GB not any of them got out with a resume cold submitted. And some of these guys are telling me they are in class with former regional TP F/O's that don't even have an ATP or 1000 PIC becuase they knew the right person. My point, upgrade at PDT is more trouble then it's worth if you go reserve.

Kind of going off tangent here. Is there a flow through deal with US Air? If so how does it work? How long is upgrade right now and how many is PDT hiring. Looking at PDT because of a specific base option.