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05-21-2016, 10:51 PM
#1261
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Joined APC: Oct 2005
Position: RJ Captain
Posts: 1,174
Originally Posted by Golden Child
Is Anyone having trouble getting through CRJ training ?
Seeing how you use to work at Transtates and have gone through a 121 program before you should have an idea on what the expectations might be. They really want you to succeed. Really, management is desperate for pilots.
05-22-2016, 12:41 AM
#1262
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Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Beach Bum
Posts: 322
Originally Posted by Utah
Oh it was a terrible deal. We all got screwed over. Everyone got a pay raise, a new bonus program that guarantees a payout of a couple thousand a year, increased retirement, better work rules, increased MDG... It's been so bad we've only added 500 pilots to the seniority list since it passed. (Actually we've hired about a 1000 and 500 have moved on to better places.) Only upgraded 2-300 hundred. Added more aircraft and we're so busy no one can get any time off and new hires hardly spend a month on reserve.
It's been so bad we got a special deal with United that guarantees an interview if you won't quit- Oh wait we don't have that.
Every day at work I hear from other pilots how they wished they had gone to work at Eagle, Mesa, Republic, or even ExpressJet. That with the union representation they have over there they wouldn't be getting screwed over like we are.
I haven't heard about anyone wanting to go to Boutique though. (And just think how much more miserable your life would have been if you had come to work here years ago at this crummy non-union airline. You live in Denver? You'd be a line holding captain making $100K+ without a commute.)
I knew when I turned down offers at Comair and ACA to come here I had screwed up.
It's been so bad we got a special deal with United that guarantees an interview if you won't quit- Oh wait we don't have that.
Every day at work I hear from other pilots how they wished they had gone to work at Eagle, Mesa, Republic, or even ExpressJet. That with the union representation they have over there they wouldn't be getting screwed over like we are.
I haven't heard about anyone wanting to go to Boutique though. (And just think how much more miserable your life would have been if you had come to work here years ago at this crummy non-union airline. You live in Denver? You'd be a line holding captain making $100K+ without a commute.)
I knew when I turned down offers at Comair and ACA to come here I had screwed up.
05-22-2016, 03:34 AM
#1263
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Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,215
Originally Posted by Terantious
$100K+ a year...highly doubtful unless you are at least a 15 year captain doing about 85 hours a month or you are whoring yourself out. Unless you got a raise negotiated by SAPA, oh wait...SAPA is useless.
05-22-2016, 04:00 AM
#1264
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Joined APC: Jul 2013
Position: 175 CA
Posts: 1,544
We don't offer crazy retention deals because people are jumping ship as they are at most of the regionals you listed "other people wanting to work for"...so bs.
A lot of new hires that leave are military that got offers at mainline, yes there are exit interviews based on facts
A lot of new hires that leave are military that got offers at mainline, yes there are exit interviews based on facts
05-22-2016, 06:08 AM
#1265
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Posts: 146
Originally Posted by Terantious
$100K+ a year...highly doubtful unless you are at least a 15 year captain doing about 85 hours a month or you are whoring yourself out. Unless you got a raise negotiated by SAPA, oh wait...SAPA is useless.
05-22-2016, 06:39 AM
#1266
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Joined APC: Oct 2013
Posts: 516
Yeah, with the bonuses and profit sharing, I hear from a lot of sub 10 year Captains that 100k is not hard to do.
Also, according to a LCA I just flew with, the training department has officially added 3 more sim sessions to the new hire training footprint. They were added to try to cut back on all the extra IOE (100+ hours) that a lot of people have been requiring lately.
Also, according to a LCA I just flew with, the training department has officially added 3 more sim sessions to the new hire training footprint. They were added to try to cut back on all the extra IOE (100+ hours) that a lot of people have been requiring lately.
05-22-2016, 07:02 AM
#1267
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Joined APC: Oct 2005
Position: RJ Captain
Posts: 1,174
Originally Posted by Terantious
$100K+ a year...highly doubtful unless you are at least a 15 year captain doing about 85 hours a month or you are whoring yourself out. Unless you got a raise negotiated by SAPA, oh wait...SAPA is useless.
Junior captain on the property making only $70 an hour at year four should see $80k minimum. -- Unless they sit on reserve all of the time and never break guarantee. (which is highly unlikely)
15+ year captains can do $120K easy. And it's why most of them aren't interested in starting over somewhere else.
05-22-2016, 08:22 AM
#1268
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Joined APC: Nov 2009
Position: 757 right seat
Posts: 315
I've made about 1200*hourly rate annually my entire career here without trying hard. I think a 7-year ERJ captain should have no problem clearing 100k, could be done at 5-years but you'd need to pick up flying.
05-22-2016, 09:03 AM
#1269
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Posts: 1,464
I agree with all of the above except: PER DIEM IS NOT INCOME.
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05-22-2016, 10:06 AM
#1270
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Position: RJ Captain
Posts: 1,174
Originally Posted by elmetal
I agree with all of the above except: PER DIEM IS NOT INCOME.
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