I'll second ExperimentalAB... GoJet was created to bypass a union scope clause to allow TransStates to operate CRJ-700s for United Express...pilots there are treated as if they are scabs, and it could haunt you at an interview later on if you have a guy that is very pro-ALPA or something. That being said, GoJet pilots have gotten jobs at majors, so who knows how all the threats pan out.

In the end, it is your decision as to what path you take, but PLEASE take your eyes off the shiny CRJ for a second and look at what else you might have to deal with!

 

You are a complete TOOL if you go to GoJets period. Do your research and if you still go there - it will be nobody else's fault but your own.

 

I am looking forward to blocking your radio transmissions, cutting in front of you in the security line, and not letting you jumpseat on my plane.

 

MESABA- Your freindly neighborhood 'Legacy Regional'. Great group of people.

 

gibbon, what the heck are you thinking? I know, you have very little time, and you probably don't want to instructor, nor pay more money to get training. here's the kicker. While the current major pilots are mostly unaware of the regional GoJet/TSA situation the rest of the regionals are very very aware of it. Eventually those same regional pilots will find their way to the majors also, and the fact that there are more pilots out there not at gojet (who dislike gojet) than there are pilots @ gojet, it's a fair guess that there will be more anti-gojet people around than pro-gojet people around. End result, your peers will look down on you for the remainder of your career, which doesn't sound like any fun to me. What's worse, if you hope to get hired @ gojet, and then get a little more time and jump to a better regional, you'll have the joy of not only explaining why you were hired, and ditched a company on your next interview, you'll STILL be explaining why you went to a scab company in the first place...your co-workers will expect that you'll cut them off, or leave them to burn in the aircraft only to save your own skin, or find the quick upgrade...it shows you lack the desire to find better employement, or improve your working conditions, and it also condones the terrible treating of pilots by company management, and shows your association with the evil enemy...mgt.

To the OP...i don't know how you could have missed all the TSA info out there, there's tons. Upgrade time is short right now (no smoke up your butt) but as was stated earlier, it'll be dropping @ other regionals as well. Mgt here sux nuts, there is no commuter clause, lines aren't really un-commutable (know lots of commuters) MEM, BNA shouldn't be to bad, infact company aircraft serve both cities out of STL. There are limited crew bases RIC/STL as you know (hopefully) and a relatively small pilot group. There's been a lot of attrition @ the top (causing the shortage of captains) but also lots @ the bottom (FO's going to chautauqua, xjet, etc) QOL isnt that bad, but movement has slowed since i was hired. Reserve is running short (two months or so) hardlines very between 12-15 days off, lowest end had been 13 at some point i believe...during the winter i saw 11 etc, now i guarentee about 15 min. Best of luck in your choice, your times seem about right, and if things don't change, yeh, you'd be able to attempt upgrade in a year or so, maybe 1.5, if your ready.

 

I currently fly for Trans States, yes the management there is less then palatable; however, our pilot group is fantastic!

We are hiring at Commercial Multi instrument certification! Training is brutal, but if you make it through there is not a training environment anywhere in this industry where you would not excell!

The GoJet situation is still a raw festering herpie on the likes of STL! those who go to GoJets will find that their lives will become quite unpleasant at the hands of their own management, and then yet again from other pilot groups.

While I have talked from time to time with members of their pilot group, I still can not look away from the fact that they still took a job there knowing that their flying was won by TSA pilots and that GoJets should be staffed by a Trans States Holding's pilot group(ne. Trans States Airlines pilots-contracted through "Holdings" to fly GJ aircraft, a-la Republic holdings!) So I will be professional towards them, but I have no sympathy for them when they get dumped on.

 

Which base is JR for Trans States? STL or RIC? I will have to commute from Denver if I ever get a call and STL would be a lot nicer.

 

I second that

 

RIC is "junior". Right now you'd be able to bid back to STL within a month or two. As far as the commute to STL, you have at least 9 flights available as options. There were a couple in my class from Denver that plan on commuting.

 

Thanks Pilotpip- I will keep building time and updating the resume.