Endeavor honestly doesn't have to make a profit. DL can and will keep them floating as long as they have a need for their existence.

 

They still don't want to blow money at something if they can get the same / similar product in a more cost effective way, i.e. SKYW...

Yes, they are owned by DL but doesn't excuse stupid moves.

 

Not a stupid move if you want a pipeline of pilots on hand for their years of high mandatory retirement. Sometimes it is about the long game. If the pilot shortage wasn't real, no one would be throwing money at it the way they are.

 

Most of them just want to live where they like (in the West) and don't care much about the regional industry. They certainly don't care what you or anyone from another airline thinks.

They're not in it to make gains, which is long term impossible in the regional industry.

If you want to make gains, update your apps and move on. The entire point of the regional business model is to PREVENT gains.

Regional pilots arguing about a few bucks here and there is like ho's arguing about relative virginity.

 

It’s the same here. If you haven’t been staying current on your own and require an IPC, then yes. You have to do it before training. You must be instrument current when you show up for class.

 

ORD may be more junior but that is only because it has MORE junior people. Right now you will sit reserve and NOT fly in ORD because it is so over staffed. If you sit reserve at another base, you will fly. Most others are nowhere near as well staffed. Once you can hold a line in ORD or BOI or another junior base, make the switch then. This is your best bet to fly. But like I said in another thread, things change with ERJ seniority all the time. A year ago ORD was the most senior base at 7 months wait. The rest were much less. That was when our new planes were doing out west along with the new hire classes.

 

Exactly correct. I never flew the entire month of May when I was out there. That is where SKYW is stacking bodies. So that is where you will go.

A few months before that guys were hiring right into SFO. I would of preferred that but, as they say “that’s the way the cookie crumbles.”

The only thing that won’t change is for at least a year or so, everyone’s experience will be different from class to class.


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I experienced the same thing. In ORD I NEVER flew. I commuted out there to sit in a bucket of 15 other people. Call first yes vs call first no would never make a difference. I was awarded SEA in Oct and I NEVER fly. But at least I sit reserve in my home and can do the things that make me happy so I am not complaining. The downside is I am not exactly making progress towards my goal of getting out an onto an airline. There is rarely anything in open time that will work with the reserve schedules. Occasionally I will find a MKE turn, not often, 1 days are usually all you can fit into a reserve schedule without breaking some crew rest rule. I finished IOE mid-May and I have flown 260 hrs in the the E-175. In all of Dec I have flown 40 min, but hey I was home for Christmas, on reserve, but home! If your in a hurry to get hours and get out of here, go to the CRJ. Maybe that will change with the new ERJ's on property this year but in SEA the CRJ's are going away and all those pilots are transitioning over to the ERJ on top of me. Not making any seniority progress anytime soon but at least I sleep in a lot. I wonder if I qualify for unemployment or those EBT cards?

 

Before class starts or before sims start?

 

You might be too busy to get current once class starts, I doubt they will want to take a chance on that.