billyho

There's the shiny jet, Faster 4 bars and now we just need some unicorns in the middle.

FirstClass

Here's another one, look how grainy they look. You need photoshop to do real work, tell your company they can't just try and use the Microsoft Paint that comes with Windows 95.

BoilerUP

APC is scraping the barrel when the quality of regional airline pilot recruitment graphics is the hot topic of discussion...

BoilerUP

Perhaps regional airline HR professionals should consider adverts like this?

billyho

LOL, yes! Our AD is better then yours.

Pilotdude3407

Side note...the female CA is at United now and I don't recognize the FO.

Flubber

Many of those in that photo shoot from a couple years ago have moved on.

billyho

I think we just had a female FO at Piedmont get hired at United. Imagine that.

CAirBear

LOL! I love how they think EFB are somehow going to bring in the masses. I saw this a few weeks ago and it really cracked me up. Let's look at the realities for a second.

Literally every regional now, except one or two, offers signing bonuses (some 10k or more) and some even offer hotels each month for commuters. RAH/TSA have first year pay mid 30s to 40 bucks now. What are we selling? 50+ years of stability (past results do not garuntee future success) and EFBs.

They could have done a lot to actually attract newhires with the TA, but they dropped the ball big time. The next 6 months will be very telling as to what may happen after 2017. If they come back to the table quickly it tells me they have definite plans moving forward. It's so annoying how they are so secretive all the time. If they know something then say it (after its 100% official, looking at you CD) because honestly if you announced something positive you would start to reattract some of for guys who would like to come, but aren't sure. You do that as well as a nice signing bonus and maybe hotels - problem solved.

As for the short term, and I am just thinking out loud here, but I really hope and wouldn't be surprised if we got back to ORD. Think about it. Your taking 20 or more 50 seaters from Eagle (will never call them Envoy) in Chicago and bringing them to PHL. I refuse to believe that our PHL operation is not going to change as stated in the email from CD. 20 planes is a lot!!! Yes PDT is going to, eventually, get rid of the Dashes (at least some), but there isn't enough gates and room to all of a sudden add 20 jets next year and expect where still doing the same number of departures etc etc. No way.

If you took 20 - 50 seaters away from ORD why the hell wouldn't you send 20 of ours to replace them? I get Eagle is supposed to get 175s, but still. 50 seaters serve a purpose out of ORD. We are a Midwest company. PDT has ALWAYS been East coast. You then could utilize your grossly underutilized MKE Mx hanger and ORD flying would lead to more WI overnights (GB, Madison, ATW you know your actual HQ). This helps the company as they get some big tax break every aircraft that is in WI overnight.

I've also noticed DCA is loaded with more and more regionals in the world now. I see a lot more PSA 200s and the Republic 175s. I have even seen some 145s. Where the hell are we? A year ago the world was 95% AWAC with 1 Dash and maybe 1 PSA.

It just seems odd to me that, in the next year, we will be getting squeezed in PHL and our presence in DCA seems to be declining, but to think nothing is going to change.

el jefe

I think being the launch customer for a new navigation chart program that no one in the US has ever used, will really bring the new hires in!