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Originally Posted by mazerRack (Post 3482213)

CommutAir new LOA:

FO: $25,000 sign on bonus, $72/hr starting, $25,000 per year retention bonus.
CP: $100/hr, $50,000 per year retention bonus ($50,000 direct entry bonus)

Monthly minimum guarantee bumped up to 76 hours (from 75).

Commuters get 4 or 6 monthly hotel rooms (line holders 4, reserve 6)
6 floating vacation days

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Our TA is going to look so bad compared to this (and that's not even compared to Envoy/PSA/Piedmont).

this is just a short term fix. UA is killing off 50 seaters. This buys them time. Then commutair goes bye bye next year as the regional model continues to collapse.

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Originally Posted by TipTanks (Post 3482427)

Is there a mechanism to trigger a referendum on the SAPA reps?

Just thinking. It would take too long to get ALPA or Teamsters in here, but if the pilot group was riled up enough to start calling for SAPAs heads that might get management’s attention as a precursor to unionization.

Report from somewhere that “we only have one SAPA rep writing the language for the PPM” and that’s the latest excuse for the delays.

Do you think Alaska has just one guy working on their agreement? Is there just one working on Frontier’s contract? We’re a bigger airline than both of those.

no contract here. One guy is plenty. It’s already decided what we are getting to vote no on. They just stall because they think it buys time. The smart ones are still leaving though.

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Originally Posted by actionseed (Post 3482318)

I have CJOs for OO and C5, and had pretty much decided on OO because I want to be based at LAX near family and not have to commute. Plus there is all the talk about UAX 50 seaters getting phased out. But with the new C5 pay and bonus it’s pretty tempting. Eventual goal is Delta, United or Southwest LAX base.

If your goal is delta then don't go to OO, they are metering us and it will take you much longer to get hired there.

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Originally Posted by VegasChris (Post 3482254)

Now with commutair doing this it's not just the WOs. I would think AirWis will pay more to keep up with it's new contract. Not sure what the renegotiated Mesa and Horizon contracts will bring.

I could have mis-heard, but I thought UAL owns C5, no?

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Originally Posted by cornerpocket (Post 3482523)

I could have mis-heard, but I thought UAL owns C5, no?

United owns 40%, according to the C5 website.

“SAPA will present the TA and all the material to the
pilots no later than Wednesday, August
24th 2022.”

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Originally Posted by TipTanks (Post 3482531)

United owns 40%, according to the C5 website.

Rumors and magic ball theory as I sit pondering my next career move

Rumor from a C5 guy I talked to at IAH. They will soon have a 170 on property and they are in the process of getting it on their certificate.

UA owns a large percentage of C5. UA killed expressjet. They will have an airline similar to AA wholly owned and they will mold that to fly the only regional jet people really seem to like (the 170) into smaller markets and then compete with the ULCCs with their efficient 320s and maxes in the other markets. Delta will compete in the regional markets with the 220 along with 170s and crj900s flown by their respective regionals (endeavor republic and OO)

GoJet closure seems imminent. I wonder what they will do with the 550s? Maybe SkyWest will be staffing those because the only other CRJ typed pilots will be AirWis, PSA, and Mesa. Skywest seems to know their crj200s for UA and DL have a a few years left- but SkyWest continues have to CRJ new hire classes coming in (with extremely delayed training footprint) The only plan for those 200s I can see other than leasing to rest of the world is the 135 operation or selling engines and parts to AirWis so they can keep theirs running

Mesa is the wildcard for now.... I wonder if they will get a new TA where they actually pay their pilots or just close shop moving the UA owned 170s to C5 and the American crj700s to SkyWest or AirWis next year. Maybe PSA will pick them up as part of AAs plan to have 600 regional jets. It seems like both UA and AA want the E145 to be gone. (more for jsx to buy for their model) model

I guess we just sit back with the popcorn and wait for something to happen

Fun fact, Skywest owns most of GoJets airplanes

Finally going to ground school, any advice?

Title says it all. Done Indoc already, and finally going back to ground school. Feeling a little nervous, any words of advice? What to study most leading up to it? What to expect? What you wish someone told you.

Any and all advice is greatly appreciate, thank you!

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